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2025

Jun 8

Shadow and Light

2018

Oct 24

Uber’s Undoing Part III: Redemption

Oct 17

Uber’s Undoing Part II: Local vs. Global

Oct 10

Uber’s Undoing Part I: Whipping Boy

Oct 9

Uber’s Undoing Book Launch

2016

Oct 25

Subtraction

Jul 12

Dystopic Pipes

Jun 7

Instagram’s Abomination Part III: Tie-Dye

May 24

Instagram’s Abomination Part II: What Camera?

May 18

Instagram’s Abomination Part I: It Was Time

Apr 27

You Could Almost Do Anything Part III: Slashes of Progress

Apr 20

You Could Almost Do Anything Part II: Deviant Tilt

Apr 12

You Could Almost Do Anything Part I: Ambiguous Abstraction

Feb 16

Uber’s Atomic Meltdown

Jan 5

The Unofficial Apple Icon Design Awards

2015

Dec 9

Implausible Hypothetical Eastern European App

Nov 17

Fire ’em!

Oct 30

Mel Brooks: The Critic

Sep 29

Keyboard Smörgåsbord

Sep 16

James Gill of GoSquared

Aug 11

Forecast: Tweetstorm

Jul 15

What Depth Remains

Jun 23

Apple’s Indies

Jun 17

The Epicenter of Change? The New Apple?

May 26

Fall of the Designer: Counter-criticism

May 19

Hard Drive Icons Through the Ages

May 5

Fall of the Designer Part V: Self-flagellation

Apr 28

Fall of the Designer Part IV: Credible Threats

Apr 21

Fall of the Designer Part III: Conformist Responsive Design

Apr 14

Fall of the Designer Part II: Pixel Pushers

Apr 7

Fall of the Designer Part I: Fashionable Nonsense

Mar 25

Critical Sharks: Feedback

Mar 24

Critical Sharks Part IV: Fear of Apple

Mar 17

Critical Sharks Part III: Design Fallacies

Mar 11

Critical Sharks Part II: Schmearing Colored Paint

Mar 4

Critical Sharks Part I: “You Can’t Say That!”

Feb 25

Mental Model

Feb 13

On Colors, Gradients and Chat Bubbles

Feb 9

Criticism and the Armchair Fallacy

Feb 2

Humanist Interface: Introduction

Feb 1

Site Relaunch

2014

Apr 28

Humanist Interface Launch

Jan 30

Unsolicited, (Un)informed Redesigns

Jan 25

Squarespace Logo: Design Automated

2013

Dec 30

Purposeful Writing

Jun 11

Aesthetics = Usability

Jun 9

Taking Breaks

May 31

Escape from Evil

May 4

Aesthetics and the Question of Dimension

Mar 26

Type Specimens

Mar 24

Site Launch