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Ilya Birman’s Blog

ilyabirman.net/meanwhile

Product and information designer. Author of books on user interface and transit maps. Art-director at Bureau Gorbunov

Software / engineering practiceTech news / industry

’15’20’25
Posts
55 from 21 Apr 2012 to 12 Sep 2026
Posting
monthly (16 in the last year)
Kind
personal blog
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2026 14

  1. Jetem Taxi app design
  2. Shift+Enter on the iPhone
  3. Jouele 4.0
  4. Microphone selection in iOS 26
  5. Liquid Glass and the Mac’s low priority
  6. Vibe coding and quality
  7. Overcast and episode limit
  8. Let me Click
  9. Stuff for Chelyabinsk transport
  10. The Lag Theorem
  11. The Brightest WWDC in Years
  12. Dear Steve Lemay
  13. Public information screens that cycle through pages
  14. Design is dead, it’s all evolution now

2025 6

  1. Tashkent Metro wayfinding
  2. Hoping for a brighter future at Apple
  3. When you type to search in Finder, files and folders are mixed together
  4. Recognizability between mobile and desktop
  5. Superpedestrian fleet management interface
  6. Samara metro map

2012 1

  1. Meet Jouele, an audio player for the web

Undated 34

  1. Talkon mapsin Abu Dhabi 2024
  2. I forgot
  3. The fourth version of Moscow metro map
  4. Autocomplete with and without selection
  5. Three states of a website menu item
  6. Typing your password over a button
  7. Two stupid windows on a Mac
  8. Selecting country to enter your phone number
  9. How to trim text the right way
  10. What is Jouele Pro
  11. The new Chelyabinsk Trams diagram
  12. Emerge 1.3 with video support and replay control
  13. SIM cards must die
  14. The revolution in the mobile user interface
  15. When “optional” means “unreliable”
  16. My iOS 6 predictishlist
  17. The hope for a beautiful iPhone
  18. Resizing Mac Windows
  19. Using timezones in Calendar in remote teams
  20. Ångström Style System for Cocoa
  21. Why are browsers so slow?
  22. The great design of PHP
  23. How I bought into the iOS 7 icons’ large circles
  24. Transport map design. Part 3
  25. The transformation of Moscow Metro map from version 3 to version 4
  26. Reversibility of an interface element
  27. the “Buy” button should always work
  28. Ångström: the update animation
  29. Onboarding
  30. London Underground voice announcements: update 2
  31. Splash screens
  32. UI Museum: Norton Commander 5.0
  33. User interface for Mimic 2.0
  34. Earlier