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Microcosmographia xxx: Write Think Write Write
January 15, 2016
Sketching is the cental activity of design, but it doesn't always have to be sketching pictures. I really like roughing out text outlines to make sense of...
Microcosmographia xiv: Do the Dumb Things I Gotta Do
January 1, 2016
How often do you consciously evaluate the direction of your life? For some folks it’s today, once a year. For a good while my answer was “never”. If I was...
Microcosmographia xxix: Siri Teaches Interaction Design, part ii
December 21, 2015
I’m working through my music library in chronological order, which has been a thrilling rediscovery of my favorite music in its original context. When 1975...
Microcosmographia xxviii: In-Context Undo
November 20, 2015
Jon, My partner in UX Launchpad, put his prodigious design insight and experience into a post about why undo has been demoted in mobile interfaces. I tend to...
Microcosmographia xxi: Old Bombadillo
November 4, 2015
Hello, friends. Remember me? I’ve been in a weird place lately. Some of it is that I’ve been busy, sure. But I’ve also just been a quieter person for a...
Microcosmographia ix: Every Paragraph A Doomsday
September 20, 2015
I recently finished the book Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom. It’s a history of the quest to create superhuman artificial...
Microcosmographia xix: How User Interfaces Are Still Failing Us, part ii
September 10, 2015
Time for another one of this series. It seemed appropriate, since I have been thinking about 3D Touch and the Apple Pencil and the other interactions...
Microcosmographia xviii: Periodic Table of Priorities
September 1, 2015
Do you have a system for managing your time? Since 2005 I’ve used a personal variant of Getting Things Done to manage my work. That changed my life. If...
Microcosmographia vii: How User Interfaces Are Still Failing Us, part i
August 16, 2015
How about that technology? Always getting better in miraculous new ways, while somehow remaining frustrating enough that those of us who make it suspect...
Microcosmographia viii: How Apple Music is like 520 East
August 9, 2015
Can I just complain for a second? I know that software is hard, but when software messes up my music-listening experience in ways that used to work just...
Microcosmographia v: I Was Just Now Thinking About Emoji
February 25, 2015
How much do you love emoji? I used to really hate ’em. In 2002 I lived in Tokyo, and used an AU phone that felt like the future. But it drove me crazy that...
Microcosmographia iv: Producers
February 18, 2015
Do you like the band RUSH? I have been super into them since I was like 12. Lately I have been thinking about the documentary that came with the limited...
Microcosmographia iii: Creativity Hax
February 11, 2015
Creativity Hax Pretty tired today! I am trying segmented sleep again, and am not quite used to it yet. But I have an old email here that I sent to my dear...
Microcosmographia ii: Zoom Out
February 4, 2015
Zoom Out Do you know Bret Victor? He’s a universally well-regarded thinker on the topic of how humans work and learn with technology. A lot of smart people...
Microcosmographia i: Exile in Hashtagtinople
January 28, 2015
Exile in Hashtagtinople Thank you for signing up. I’m not sure yet precisely what this newsletter is going to become, but for a while now I’ve been feeling...
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