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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.

24 videos
@interfacestudies
  1. 24 The Lost Discipline of the Alarm: What Notification Design Forgot
  2. 23 When Software Took the Word ‘Social’
  3. 22 What Paper Had That Your Productivity App Doesn’t
  4. 21 What Makes Software a “Place”?
  5. 20 The Skeuomorphism Nobody Talks About
  6. 19 The Receding User: Designing for Absence
  7. 18 Why Horizontal Scrolling Never Caught On
  8. 17 The Happy Path Doesn’t Exist: Notes on Software Fluidity
  9. 16 The Question Your Desktop Is Hiding
  10. 15 nodepad: a design experiment in spatial thinking (open source)
  11. 14 Who’s a Designer? On Roles, Processes, Tools, and of Course AI!
  12. 13 The Responsive Surface: Math Notes and the Page That Thinks Back
  13. 12 On Games, Modes, and the Depth of Fewer Inputs
  14. 11 What Do We Really Know About the Back Button?
  15. 10 When the Interface Flattens Into a Prompt
  16. 09 Why Pie Menus Never Became the Default: Radial Design in a Linear World
  17. 08 When Interfaces Decide How We Think
  18. 07 In Defence of the Spreadsheet, Reluctantly
  19. 06 Verbs vs Nouns: The Word Order That Shaped User Interfaces
  20. 05 Interfaces of the Future Past: Can AI Revive Early Interface Concepts?
  21. 04 vibe coding and "wait time" brainrot
  22. 03 The Curious Case of Zoomable User Interfaces and AI
  23. 02 Agents vs Operating Systems: The War That Could Kill Apps
  24. 01 When Software Becomes the User: AI Agents & The Future of Interfaces