New video on Interface Studies: The Hover State: Between Noticing and Doing youtu.be/zGnj906NODM?...
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interaction designer & amateur game maker ~ nostalgic for 4:3 ratios and tape hiss. all views are personal. I make videos about design at https://www.youtube.com/@interfacestudies
New on Interface Studies: almost every app has a bookmark button. Almost none of them has a real “later.” This video traces the save-for-later pattern from a 1983 study of office desks, through browser bookmarks and hidden menus, to the Watch Later lists we rarely open. youtu.be/frjyb4_4Rlg?...
"Save for Later" Has No Later
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First Playable Demo Available! - Nightveld beshr.itch.io/nightveld/de... #indiegames
First Playable Demo Available!
Finally, after many rounds of back and forth between my Windows and macOS machines, I'm very happy to release the first playable demo of Nightveld! In this demo, you can play the first 10 nights (wave...
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New video on Interface Studies Our phone’s notifications are an alarm problem. Oil refineries, nuclear plants, and hospitals developed a whole discipline around it. The Lost Discipline of the Alarm: What Notification Design Forgot youtu.be/Ira28fgSF7M
The Lost Discipline of the Alarm: What Notification Design Forgot
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New video on Interface Studies: what happens when software borrows a word from a different world and what makes an interface “social”? youtu.be/j7xidb5fK8c?...
When Software Took the Word 'Social'
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New video on Interface Studies: what happens when software borrows a word from a different world and what makes an interface “social”? youtu.be/j7xidb5fK8c?...
When Software Took the Word 'Social'
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Ossature can now catch code that compiles but is wrong ossature.dev/blog/code-co...
Ossature can now catch code that compiles but is wrong — Ossature Blog
The 0.1 releases let an AMD component declare how its code should behave, and add a reviewer that reads the generated code against those contracts after it compiles.
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New Video on Interface Studies What Every Productivity App Trades Away youtu.be/OuEKdD_1F8s?... As we chase the latest productivity systems, this video takes a step back to examine the fundamental trade-offs built into every productivity app.
What Every Productivity App Trades Away
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New Video on Interface Studies: What Makes Software a “Place”? When does software start to feel like somewhere instead of something? Some software you return to. Some you only use. The difference is not aesthetic, and it is not nostalgia. youtu.be/tBE2ZYx7MWw?...
What Makes Software a "Place"?
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New Video on Interface Studies: What Makes Software a “Place”? When does software start to feel like somewhere instead of something? Some software you return to. Some you only use. The difference is not aesthetic, and it is not nostalgia. youtu.be/tBE2ZYx7MWw?...
What Makes Software a "Place"?
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New video on Interface Studies: The Skeuomorphism Nobody Talks About Skeuomorphism is usually framed as a closed chapter of consumer interface design: the leather and felt of early iOS, retired in 2013, dismissed as visual fashion. But another version never went anywhere. youtu.be/3Q-G9x315-g
The Skeuomorphism Nobody Talks About
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New video on Interface Studies: The Receding User: Designing for Absence Interface design spent sixty years closing the distance between user and action. Certain aspects of generative AI and the software built around it suggest otherwise. youtube.com/watch?v=C0aC...
The Receding User: Designing for Absence
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New video on Interface Studies: The Receding User: Designing for Absence Interface design spent sixty years closing the distance between user and action. Certain aspects of generative AI and the software built around it suggest otherwise. youtube.com/watch?v=C0aC...
The Receding User: Designing for Absence
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What Makes a Good LLM Spec: ossature.dev/blog/what-ma...
What Makes a Good LLM Spec — Ossature Blog
The format you pick for specs is the easy part. The hard part is knowing what is worth writing down and having a good harness around it that helps you without being in your way. A few practical princi...
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New video on Interface Studies: Why Horizontal Scrolling Never Caught On This video walks through a wrong question. If mobile scrolls down, why doesn't the desktop scroll sideways? youtube.com/watch?v=5Xph...
Why Horizontal Scrolling Never Caught On
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New video on Interface Studies: Why Horizontal Scrolling Never Caught On This video walks through a wrong question. If mobile scrolls down, why doesn't the desktop scroll sideways? youtube.com/watch?v=5Xph...
Why Horizontal Scrolling Never Caught On
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New video on Interface Studies: The Happy Path Doesn't Exist: Notes on Software Fluidity youtu.be/VzjvBYaGHgA
The Happy Path Doesn't Exist: Notes on Software Fluidity
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New video on Interface Studies. On window manages, alternatives to traditional desktops, and how linux communities are leading the change. youtu.be/ARjisP9enZ4?...
The Question Your Desktop Is Hiding
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updated a small experiment that I worked on a while ago. nodepad is a spatial research tool that reads what you write and enriches it. no chat. no prompts. just capture your thought and see the structure emerge. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCLY... nodepad.space
nodepad
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New video on Interface Studies Who’s a Designer? On roles, processes, tools, and of course AI! The design industry is undergoing a stress test, exposing long-ignored paradoxes around the profession and its labour market, many of which have existed for over a decade. youtu.be/v1WdF7BxpBc?...
Who’s a Designer? On Roles, Processes, Tools, and of Course AI!
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New video on Interface Studies Who’s a Designer? On roles, processes, tools, and of course AI! The design industry is undergoing a stress test, exposing long-ignored paradoxes around the profession and its labour market, many of which have existed for over a decade. youtu.be/v1WdF7BxpBc?...
Who’s a Designer? On Roles, Processes, Tools, and of Course AI!
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🤷🏻♂️ “Build me an app to build me an app to build me an app to find what I need to find.” 🤷🏻♂️
New video on Interface Studies on Responsive Surfaces. Using Math Notes as a lens for a longer argument about a computing paradigm in which the surface or the app itself becomes responsive. Not a tool you query, but a medium that participates. Hope you enjoy it :) youtu.be/4Vzd_-K6zaI?...
The Responsive Surface: Math Notes and the Page That Thinks Back
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Published a new video on Interface Studies: On Games, Modes, and the Depth of Fewer Inputs: How constrained input schemes produce surprising depth. youtu.be/SdMDyJ7XG58
On Games, Modes, and the Depth of Fewer Inputs
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Published a new video on "Interface Studies" What Do We Really Know About the Back Button? This video traces the concept of "back" across five distinct systems. Each system makes a different wager on what kind of past should be available to the user. youtu.be/Z4cS2Ivg2-M?...
What Do We Really Know About the Back Button?
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Congrats to "THE REALITY ENGINEER" by Konstantin, an Honorable Mention, Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest 🏅 A comedic short about a scientist who attempts to improve human life by altering reality. Full film ➡️ archive.org/details/the-... #PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay