Interface
Studies
Long-form videos on interfaces: the screens we look at, the words we type, the buttons we miss, and the choices we live inside.
Each one is an argument. About how interfaces shape what we can think. About why old ideas keep resurfacing. About what is shifting now, as AI rewires the surface between software and us.
31 videos
- 31 What “Infinite Scrolling” Was For
- 30 What Does “Intuitive” Actually Mean?
- 29 What Replaced DVD Menus: Algorithms Dressed in Templates
- 28 Did AI Agents Break the “Undo” Button?
- 27 Do We Have Too Many Settings?
- 26 Hovering Over a Button: How It Started, and How Touch Broke It
- 25 “Save for Later” Has No Later
- 24 The Lost Discipline of the Alarm: What Notification Design Forgot
- 23 When Software Took the Word ‘Social’
- 22 What Paper Had That Your Productivity App Doesn’t
- 21 What Makes Software a “Place”?
- 20 The Skeuomorphism Nobody Talks About
- 19 The Receding User: Designing for Absence
- 18 Why Horizontal Scrolling Never Caught On
- 17 The Happy Path Doesn’t Exist: Notes on Software Fluidity
- 16 The Question Your Desktop Is Hiding
- 15 nodepad: a design experiment in spatial thinking (open source)
- 14 Who’s a Designer? On Roles, Processes, Tools, and of Course AI!
- 13 The Responsive Surface: Math Notes and the Page That Thinks Back
- 12 On Games, Modes, and the Depth of Fewer Inputs
- 11 What Do We Really Know About the Back Button?
- 10 When the Interface Flattens Into a Prompt
- 09 Why Pie Menus Never Became the Default: Radial Design in a Linear World
- 08 When Interfaces Decide How We Think
- 07 In Defence of the Spreadsheet, Reluctantly
- 06 Verbs vs Nouns: The Word Order That Shaped User Interfaces
- 05 Interfaces of the Future Past: Can AI Revive Early Interface Concepts?
- 04 vibe coding and "wait time" brainrot
- 03 The Curious Case of Zoomable User Interfaces and AI
- 02 Agents vs Operating Systems: The War That Could Kill Apps
- 01 When Software Becomes the User: AI Agents & The Future of Interfaces