Writing.
Essays about interface craft, mostly written to work out what I think. Roughly one a quarter, which is fewer than I plan and more than I expect.
All posts.
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The four-pixel rule
Every interface I like moves things about four pixels. Here is why that number keeps showing up.
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Against the spinner
A loading spinner is an apology. Most of the time you can ship the answer instead.
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A year of one typeface
I set every project in the same family for twelve months. It did not make the work look the same.
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The empty state is the product
Every user sees the zero-data screen first, and it is usually the last thing anyone designs.
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Sixty-three deleted lines
The best change I shipped last quarter removed a feature nobody had used in fourteen months.