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2025 1

  1. Shadow and Light

2018 4

  1. Uber’s Undoing Part III: Redemption
  2. Uber’s Undoing Part II: Local vs. Global
  3. Uber’s Undoing Part I: Whipping Boy
  4. Uber’s Undoing Book Launch

2016 10

  1. Subtraction
  2. Dystopic Pipes
  3. Instagram’s Abomination Part III: Tie-Dye
  4. Instagram’s Abomination Part II: What Camera?
  5. Instagram’s Abomination Part I: It Was Time
  6. You Could Almost Do Anything Part III: Slashes of Progress
  7. You Could Almost Do Anything Part II: Deviant Tilt
  8. You Could Almost Do Anything Part I: Ambiguous Abstraction
  9. Uber’s Atomic Meltdown
  10. The Unofficial Apple Icon Design Awards

2015 26

  1. Implausible Hypothetical Eastern European App
  2. Fire ’em!
  3. Mel Brooks: The Critic
  4. Keyboard Smörgåsbord
  5. James Gill of GoSquared
  6. Forecast: Tweetstorm
  7. What Depth Remains
  8. Apple’s Indies
  9. The Epicenter of Change? The New Apple?
  10. Fall of the Designer: Counter-criticism
  11. Hard Drive Icons Through the Ages
  12. Fall of the Designer Part V: Self-flagellation
  13. Fall of the Designer Part IV: Credible Threats
  14. Fall of the Designer Part III: Conformist Responsive Design
  15. Fall of the Designer Part II: Pixel Pushers
  16. Fall of the Designer Part I: Fashionable Nonsense
  17. Critical Sharks: Feedback
  18. Critical Sharks Part IV: Fear of Apple
  19. Critical Sharks Part III: Design Fallacies
  20. Critical Sharks Part II: Schmearing Colored Paint
  21. Critical Sharks Part I: “You Can’t Say That!”
  22. Mental Model
  23. On Colors, Gradients and Chat Bubbles
  24. Criticism and the Armchair Fallacy
  25. Humanist Interface: Introduction
  26. Site Relaunch

2014 3

  1. Humanist Interface Launch
  2. Unsolicited, (Un)informed Redesigns
  3. Squarespace Logo: Design Automated

2013 7

  1. Purposeful Writing
  2. Aesthetics = Usability
  3. Taking Breaks
  4. Escape from Evil
  5. Aesthetics and the Question of Dimension
  6. Type Specimens
  7. Site Launch