Who will taste the cherries?
In my new essay on Aeon: The computist has one dream: to debug the subjectivity out of all of human knowledge, creating a pure, frictionless world
Essays
A Meditation on Gardening, Design, and Information
It’s very hard to replicate the aesthetic pleasure of a moonvine on-screen. The composition suffers from a lack of texture. There’s no wind or rain inside a smartphone.
The Interface Behind (Liquid, Frosted, Tinted) Glass
The cyclical revival of “glass” as a sign of newness, technical sophistication, and innovation.
How Severance Interrogates The Modern Aesthetic
There might be spoilers in here. But I need to talk about the furniture.
The Family Reunion
There’s something to be said for the preservation of interaction, ideas, and execution.
Unpacking “Craft” in the Software Interface
The more I see craft mentioned as a power of design, the more I feel that a working definition is urgently needed.
Skeuomorphism and the Morphology of UI
What to make of aesthetics in the interface, “neu” and old.
Metaphor and Transformation in the Interface
The way metaphor permeates the interface points to a continued struggle to live with the complexity introduced by the very media we’ve created to manage it.
Reshaping our expectations for generative design
From Le Corbusier to Figma, “design is, at its core, a permanently subject-oriented discipline.”
Mutate More: Digging Deeper Into UI That Evolves With the User
Project Phoebe Phase 2: Dynamic contrast, and a mutative engine.
Meet Project Phoebe: A Moonshot Concept for Mutative Design
Design shouldn’t just adapt to screen size. Context isn’t all about adding more information.
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