design
6 entries
The inner voices
The signals nobody looks at — focus order, live regions, the alt text — are the ones holding the texture together. A third pass at the counterpoint idea.
The honest empty state
Two voices
A year of applying the counterpoint idea in practice, and the part I got wrong: independence is not the goal, it is the constraint.
A notation for a scheduling tool
A scheduling product where every user had built the same private workaround. The work was finding out what the workaround was for.
Counterpoint for interfaces
Interfaces fail the way bad counterpoint fails: not because any single line is wrong, but because two lines that were fine apart stop being fine together.
The Design of Everyday Things
Put down two-thirds through, not because it is wrong but because I had already absorbed it secondhand. Everything in it had reached me before the book did.