Posts tagged with Design
Our Three-Part Vacation Strategy
I've been sneaking vacation photos into my Year in Review posts, as we've had the opportunity to go farther away in recent years. The travel switch flipped when the kids got old enough to remember their…
The Layering of UX Friction
It's a phone upgrade year in my household; I'm grabbing the new iPhone 17 Pro, while my wife is upgrading to a Google Pixel 10, and both of our parents are also in the midst of…
Review: Shift Happens
Shift Happens is a labor of love. The author, Marcin Wichary, quit his job to start the process of writing this book[1], taking 5–6 years of research, photography, design, and writing to publish. It's a 2-…
Controlled Set Pieces
I've been making my way through Marvel's Spider-Man 2. This game was released in 2023 for the PS5, a headliner title that served as a showcase for both the console's graphics and its…
Multi-Interface Apps
With this year's iOS17 and iPhone 15, the improvements aren't exactly life-changing: a Standby mode that adds a bunch of dim widgets when the phone is statically charging; more customization options for widgets overall across…
Technology-Driven Creativity
This is a good, if long , article that summarizes how everything seems to be converging on a set of homogeneous styles: The age of average I've read the bit on how all cars have near-identical shapes, and…
