Essays on the craft of interfaces, the philosophy of software, and the quiet decisions that shape the things we use every day. Written by Elena Vasquez, Product designer & writer.
Design
We talk a lot about how interfaces look, but almost never about how they feel. Texture isn't a material property on a screen — it's the accumulated result of a hundred micro-decisions about timing, easing, weight, and breath.
7 min read →Technology
Software has spent two decades optimizing for speed. But speed was never the goal — it was a proxy for something else. What if we optimized for pace instead?
5 min read →Design
Every website has a reading experience, whether the designer intended one or not. Most are accidental. Here's what I've learned from paying attention to mine.
6 min read →Writing
Every few months I print sixteen pages of writing on a risograph and mail them to thirty people. In an age of newsletters and subscriber counts, this is an act of deliberate inefficiency.
4 min read →