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April 24, 2025
You Can Be a Great Designer and Be Completely Unknown
April 16, 2025
Developing Digital Disgust
April 8, 2025
Discernment in the Digital Age
March 28, 2025
Digital Echoes and Unquiet Minds
March 12, 2025
No Orphans to Ambition
March 10, 2025
From Pascal's Empty Room to Our Full Screens
February 28, 2025
What We Owe to Artificial Minds
February 27, 2025
Simplification Takes Courage
February 22, 2025
In Defense of Text Labels
February 16, 2025
The AI Debate We're Not Having
February 12, 2025
The Productive Void
February 11, 2025
Shut up, Siri
February 10, 2025
Dedigitization
February 5, 2025
The Internet Can't Discover: A Case for New Technologies
February 3, 2025
The Interface Is Always There
January 31, 2025
From Pages to Scenes
January 29, 2025
The Empty Hours
January 27, 2025
The Testing Trap
January 26, 2025
Digital Reality Digital Shock
January 24, 2025
The Exodus
January 23, 2025
Dreams in the Machine
January 22, 2025
Who is the internet for?
January 21, 2025
The Value of Friction
January 20, 2025
The Unpublishable
January 19, 2025
Windows, Frames, and Other Realities
January 18, 2025
100 Image Moodboard
January 17, 2025
The Pigeonhole Principle
January 15, 2025
Persuasion is Plural
January 13, 2025
The Geography of Interface
December 30, 2024
Year in Review – 2024
December 21, 2024
Organization – Office – 2024
November 18, 2024
The Two Most Important Skills for Interaction Designers
July 16, 2024
Understanding the Eye-Mind Connection
June 19, 2024
The Internet Isn't for Humans Anymore
June 2, 2024
The AI Designer
May 23, 2024
Knowledge Work, AI, and Fragile Egos
May 13, 2024
The Elements of Good Craft
April 30, 2024
We Have Five Years Left
December 29, 2023
Being Normal
December 8, 2023
Your Own Personal Picture Collection
August 18, 2023
Organization – Office
July 9, 2023
Personal Machines and Portable Worlds
July 7, 2023
Gestalt Principles of Design – Symmetry
June 30, 2023
Gestalt Principles of Design – Continuity
June 25, 2023
Gestalt Principles of Design – Similarity
June 16, 2023
Gestalt Principles of Design – Closure
June 14, 2023
Gestalt Principles of Design – Proximity
June 9, 2023
Negative-Space Typography
June 3, 2023
How to Adapt Long-Page Designs for Better Scanning
June 2, 2023
The Road Through Your Screen
May 28, 2023
4 Levels of Grids for Web Designers
May 27, 2023
Using the Y-Axis to Maintain Focus and Attention
May 20, 2023
The Rhythm of Your Screen
May 13, 2023
How to Turn Good Design Direction into a Good System
May 7, 2023
What I Want From The Internet
May 6, 2023
What happens when the computers disappear?
May 5, 2023
Designing for (Realistic) Attention
April 15, 2023
Persuasion
March 19, 2023
My Reverse Time Capsule
January 28, 2022
We Live in the Uncanny Valley Now
December 17, 2021
What Eyes Want
December 3, 2021
Are We Ready?
November 19, 2021
There Is No Digital World
November 5, 2021
What We Do When We See
November 5, 2021
What If Phones Were Actually Designed for Hands?
October 29, 2021
Can a Robot Do a Designer's Job?
October 22, 2021
A Pep Talk for those Who Work Bullshit Jobs
October 15, 2021
The Last Time
September 17, 2021
Move Slow and Preserve Things
September 3, 2021
Less Doesn't Have to Be More. It Can Just Be Less.
August 27, 2021
From the Desk Of
August 20, 2021
Systems Design is Not Enough
August 13, 2021
Books
July 23, 2021
First Principles
July 16, 2021
Why I Am Still A Designer
July 2, 2021
Turn It All Off
June 18, 2021
We Write, Therefore We Are Cyborgs
June 11, 2021
The Mosaic
May 28, 2021
The World is Crowded and That is Natural
May 21, 2021
The Luddites Were Right
May 14, 2021
We Don't Need More Information
May 7, 2021
The Problem With Design is Designers
April 30, 2021
Think About the Future's Past
April 23, 2021
Encapsulated Experiences
April 12, 2021
73 Ideas that Should Provoke You
April 9, 2021
Progress Jams
April 2, 2021
The Power of Small Images
April 2, 2021
Other Ways
March 19, 2021
Future Objects
March 12, 2021
Your Phone is Destroying the World
March 5, 2021
The Circle of Now
February 26, 2021
The Riddle of the Square
February 19, 2021
Attention Stewardship
February 11, 2021
This Is Not Good Design
February 5, 2021
Search Engines Don't Work and They Are Not Good
January 29, 2021
The Biggest Dream is of the Small, Simple Life
January 27, 2021
Cross-Examining Coincidence in the Courtroom of Technology
January 22, 2021
That Coincidental Advertisement is Not Just a Coincidence
January 15, 2021
Good Prophecy Doesn't Have to Be Right
January 8, 2021
We Have A Reality Problem
December 31, 2020
Success Mysticism
July 1, 2020
The Place Where We Shelter
April 20, 2018
Active Erasure
April 6, 2018
Progress Bombs
March 8, 2018
Computer Nostalgia and Malignant Doppelwelts
February 22, 2018
Want to Resist? Delete Your Facebook Account
July 28, 2017
Unexpected and Realistic AI Headlines
July 18, 2017
Introducing The Liminal
December 4, 2016
Facebook Is Not necessary
November 4, 2016
Talking to Machines
October 29, 2016
Behind Every Robot is a Human
October 10, 2016
Unearthed Time Capsules
October 2, 2016
Words Matter
September 2, 2016
Design is Art with Rules
August 13, 2016
A Solution that Doesn't Exist
July 30, 2016
We don't fear the future…
June 9, 2016
A Slice of Life
June 3, 2016
How to Design a Different Future
May 27, 2016
The Magic of Ordinary Objects
May 12, 2016
When the World Around You Shook
March 17, 2016
Unchecked Attention Avarice
March 10, 2016
How to Think About the Future
February 26, 2016
Sympathy for the Sim
February 19, 2016
The Most Difficult Thing About Design
February 11, 2016
Technological Luxury is Powered by Oppression
February 4, 2016
Beneath the Interface Layer
January 22, 2016
How to Get Your Time Back
January 2, 2016
We Are What We Watch
December 18, 2015
Upgrading Our Way Out
November 13, 2015
Time's First Principles
November 6, 2015
Until They All Have Faces
October 23, 2015
Back to the Real Future
October 16, 2015
The Fit Filter
October 9, 2015
Street Ritual
September 25, 2015
The Gift in Our Work
September 18, 2015
Sabbaticalifragilisticexpialidocious!
August 21, 2015
The dream of the Nineties is alive…
August 14, 2015
It won’t be interesting until we can’t see it anymore.
August 7, 2015
Step aside, keep quiet, and listen.
July 30, 2015
Greetings from the Rubbish Patch
July 24, 2015
The Last Thing We Need
July 15, 2015
Enter the Void
July 2, 2015
Perceiving the Machine
June 26, 2015
Where are you, Digital Le Corbusier?
June 19, 2015
Randoposto
June 12, 2015
Keeping the Fire Lit
June 4, 2015
The Power of Perspective
June 3, 2015
Emails are the new blogs.
May 28, 2015
What is an idea worth?
May 26, 2015
We Always Start Now
May 8, 2015
The Designer Stands Firm
May 1, 2015
Etc. Etc. Etc.
April 17, 2015
Advertising is an Anachronism
April 3, 2015
A 200-Word Mixpost
March 27, 2015
The Cost of Cognitive Surplus
March 13, 2015
A.I. is U.I.
March 6, 2015
The way to make good things is to make many things.
February 27, 2015
Neighborhoods, the Anti-Algorithm
February 20, 2015
Everyone is someone else’s marketer…
February 11, 2015
Don't Think About the Future
January 29, 2015
Through the Looking Glass
January 16, 2015
Futures of Making and Being
January 9, 2015
Liner Notes for a Lifetime Mix
January 1, 2015
Thirty-Four (a lifetime film list)
December 31, 2014
Thirty-Four (a lifetime mix)
December 19, 2014
We'll get there fast and then we'll take it slow.
December 12, 2014
The information is not entirely online.
December 4, 2014
"I just want something real to happen."
November 28, 2014
Blackfridaycore
November 21, 2014
We are all working for different futures.
November 13, 2014
Hyper-local NIMBYism (and Other Easy Critiques)
November 6, 2014
The Inexorable March of Convenience
October 30, 2014
21st Century Simulacra
October 23, 2014
Something Wetter than Pixels
October 16, 2014
A cup of tea and a crowbar materialize in space...
October 9, 2014
Truth and Ditto
October 4, 2014
Take Time
October 1, 2014
Flesh and Machine
September 29, 2014
Going Postal
September 27, 2014
Independent Brains
September 25, 2014
The Disappointment of Now
September 23, 2014
Time-Collapsers, Great and Small
August 13, 2014
On Expertise and Control
April 14, 2014
How to Tell the User's Story
March 30, 2014
Remote Viewing
March 26, 2014
Maybe that acquisition is just good advertising.
March 14, 2014
"Disruption"
March 9, 2014
Guts
March 4, 2014
This Mediated Life
February 25, 2014
Groupthink
February 21, 2014
There’s a person at the other end.
February 20, 2014
More destabilizing ideas, please.
February 19, 2014
We don't solve real problems anymore.
January 22, 2014
Detroit
January 3, 2014
Being Online in 2014
January 1, 2014
Loves and Resolutions
October 15, 2012
Don't Be So Linear
August 11, 2012
Stuck in Idle
May 29, 2012
Several Things I Have Learned
May 14, 2012
Playing with Data
March 13, 2012
On Digital Davids and Goliaths: Why the Design We Trust Usually Comes from the Little Guy
January 10, 2012
Future Daydream
December 15, 2011
Ethical Technology, 5
December 14, 2011
Ethical Technology, 4
December 13, 2011
Ethical Technology, 3
December 12, 2011
Ethical Technology, 2
December 11, 2011
Ethical Technology, 1
September 16, 2011
Smarter, Better Cyborgs
July 15, 2011
How Should We Contain the Cloud
June 1, 2011
The Folly of the Flock
February 10, 2010
We are Latently Enslaved by Our Own Ingenuity
July 24, 2009
Interview with John Maeda
February 6, 2009
Can Any Problem Be Solved?
February 3, 2009
21st Century Skillset
January 27, 2009
The End of Solitude
January 26, 2009
Time Definitely Has Value
January 23, 2009
The Great Equalizer
January 19, 2009
In Real Life
January 7, 2009
Respond
September 22, 2008
Interview with Silas Munro