Using common metaphors makes your product UI identical to all the others. There’s no personality, no brand, solidifying the notion that this product is “just another tool” rather than a new way of interacting with a computer. Surely technology can be better than that. But this is an egocentric view. Your customers don’t want to figure out some newfangled damn thing just to navigate a dialog box. Which way is the right way?
Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? | Ubuntu Summit 25.10
Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? | Ubuntu Summit 25.10
Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? | Ubuntu Summit 25.10
The Weird Death Of User Interfaces
Why We Need to Rethink the Computer ‘Desktop’ as a Concept
Thoughts about a new direction for desktop UI
under the hood
This week I’ve been thinking about what it’s like for a new generation to make things with computers. When we were talking in Berlin, Luce made a point that...
Everything is ugly, so go build something that isn't — Raiza Martin, Huxe (ex NotebookLM)
Learning From Terminals to Design the Future of User Interfaces
How we overvalue the wrong technology and novel aspects of interface design at the expense of substantial gains to our productivity.
The Interfaces With Which We Think
The concepts in modern operating systems — apps, windows, desktops, notifications, and so on — have so permeated our understanding of personal computing, it’s hard to imagine anything else, let alone believe there could be anything better.
Money as Message | Andreessen Horowitz
Network effects — where a product or service becomes more valuable to its users as more people use it — are one of the key ways software businesses maintain a better product and more defensible market position. This is especially true of messaging apps like WeChat — which, as I’ve argued before, is not just...
Why build a new browser? From intuition to reality - Blog | Lightpanda
Three years ago when we started Lightpanda, we asked ourselves a seemingly simple question what would a browser look like if it were built specifically for automation?
Scott Jenson: Are we really going to use the same Desktop UX forever?
Scott Jenson: Are we really going to use the same Desktop UX forever?
Scott Jenson: Are we really going to use the same Desktop UX forever?
The Product Picnic
Writing on UX and product management to connect today's discourse with classic insights that the industry forgot.
