With the reveal of the new iPhone Duo1, I was delighted to see how iOS was adapted to accommodate the strange, shifting nature of a folding display. How do we communicate the weird turns and tumbles of the hardware not just to the system, but to the user, to prepare them for what their big cumbersome motion will do to the apps they’re interacting with?
Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26
iOS 26’s visual language obscures content instead of letting it take the spotlight. New (but not always better) design patterns replace established conventions.
Physicality: the new age of UI
There’s a lot of rumors of a big impending UI redesign from Apple. Let’s imagine what’s (or what could be) next for the design of iPhones, Macs and iPads.
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We Melted iPhones for Science
OASIS generated real-time video with on-device AI. Four years later, Apple redesigned the iPhone so that AI won't burn your hand -- and admitted that we were right.
App Dissection
Breaking down the design details of well-crafted mobile apps. In-depth analysis of UI patterns, interactions, and user experience.
Michael Tsai - Blog - Alan Kay on the iPhone
If people could understand what computing was about, the iPhone would not be a bad thing. But because people don’t understand what computing is about, they think they have it in the iPhone, and that illusion is as bad as the illusion that Guitar Hero is the same as a real guitar. That’s the simple long and the short of it.
The Weird Death Of User Interfaces
Building Glass for the Web
How we built a cross-browser glass effect for the web, and how it shapes a family of components.
Apple Lied About Siri
Instrumental interaction: an interaction model for designing post-WIMP user interfaces
Although the power of personal computers has increased 1000-fold over the past 20 years, user interfaces remain essentially the same. Innovations in HCI research, particularly novel interaction techniques, are rarely incorporated into products. In this ...
Is Apple Security a MYTH?
reactable: basic demo #1
Apple at 50: eight technology leaps that changed our world
From Apple II to the iPhone, time and again this extraordinary company has anticipated the value of opening up computing to everyone.
John | Formfactor Design on Twitter / X
Hot take: Liquid Glass is NOT a design failure.Apple’s designers are league ahead of any of us yapping here.⁰They didn’t “forget” readability with their $500K salary 🤷🏻Here's what we missed... 😅 pic.twitter.com/gzk0ryNQmf— John | Formfactor Design (@johnny_lam_) June 10, 2025
Post-app computing
Imagining computing beyond siloed, rigid apps
Golems, smart objects, and the file metaphor
Rethinking how technology uses our personal data
User-tailorable systems: pressing the issues with buttons
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