‘design’ directory
- See Also
- Gwern
- “Project Xanadu: Even More Hindsight ”, Gwern 2025
- “ChatGPT-O3: Website Design Feedback Ideas [Total Site Review Confabulation] ”, GPT-o3 & Gwern 2025
- “Traffic Lights: Yes, Maybe, No—Can You Please Repeat The Question? ”, Gwern 2025
- “Cleanup When: Before or After? ”, Gwern 2022
- “Rock-Paper-Scissors Optimality ”, Gwern 2024
- “Towards Better RSS Feeds ”, Gwern 2024
- “Hierarchical Embeddings for Text Search ”, Gwern 2024
- “‘Tools For Thought’ Failure ”, Gwern 2024
- “Virtual Comments: LLM Idea ”, Gwern 2024
- “Celebrity Masquerade Game Proposal ”, Gwern 2024
- “Research Ideas ”, Gwern 2017
- “About This Website ”, Gwern 2010
- “Hybridizing Forums/wikis Proposal ”, Gwern 2024
- “Nenex: A Neural Personal Wiki Idea ”, Gwern 2023
- “Cat Itecture: Better Cat Window Boxes ”, Gwern 2023
- “Twitter Follow-Request UX Problems ”, Gwern 2023
- “Open Questions ”, Gwern 2018
- “Why Do Hipsters Steal Stuff? ”, Gwern 2022
- “Technology Holy Wars Are Coordination Problems ”, Gwern 2020
- “On Having Enough Socks ”, Gwern 2017
- “Bitcoin Is Worse Is Better ”, Gwern 2011
- “Candy Japan’s New Box A/B Test ”, Gwern 2016
- “Wikipedia and Other Wikis ”, Gwern 2009
- Links
- “Tangled Dürer: The 6 Knots (Ca. Before 1521) ”, Tokumitsu 2025
- layer07_yuxi @ "2025-05-06"
- “Clippy Desktop Assistant ”, Rieseberg 2025
- “The Raccoons Who Made Computer Magazine Ads Great: In the 1980s and 1990s, PC Connection Built Its Brand on a Campaign Starring Folksy Small-Town Critters. They’ll Still Charm Your Socks ”, McCracken 2025
- “Creating Bluey: Tales from the Art Director ”, Drummond 2025
- “CERN ‘Ophanim’ Circuit Board ”, jaseg 2025
- “How the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg Got Added to the White House Signal Group Chat: Internal Investigation Cleared the National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, but the Mistake Was Months in the Making ”, Lowell 2025
- “The Barium Experiment [Writing a Custom X.org GUI Library in Common Lisp] ”, Szilagyi 2025
- “Iconography of the PuTTY Tools [History & Development of GUI Icons] ”, Tatham 2025
- “The Balatro Timeline [Design Iteration] ”, LocalThunk 2025
- “Levels of Friction ”, Mowshowitz 2025
- “Developer Philosophy ”, Hughes 2025
- “My Technological Regrets [In Designing Elm Apps] ”, Thomas 2025
- “Norman Foster’s Architectural Empire ”
- “NeuralSVG: An Implicit Representation for Text-To-Vector Generation ”, Polaczek et al 2025
- “Laziness, Impatience, Hubris: The 3 Programmer Virtues ”, WikiWikiWeb 2025
- “The Color of Memory: Albert Kahn’s Archives of the Planet ”, Linden 2024
- “Book Review: From Bauhaus To Our House (Tom Wolfe 1981) ”, Alexander 2024
- “The Rollercoaster King: the Man behind the UK’s Fastest Thrill-Ride ”
- “How I Designed a Dieter Rams-Inspired IPhone Dock ”, Arslan 2024
- “Glue and Coprocessor Architectures ”, Buterin 2024
- “Algorithms We Develop Software By ”, Slatton 2024
- “Netnews: The Origin Story ”, Bellovin 2024
- “Navigating Corporate Giants: Jeffrey Snover and the Making of PowerShell ”, Snover & Bell 2024
- “Total War: ROME II and Creative Assembly—My Statement 10 Years On ”, McKinlay 2024
- “On Complex Simplicity and Simple Complexity ”, Svensson 2024
- “If OpenSSL Were a GUI ”, Tashian 2024
- “Reflections on
98.css(Windows 98 GUI Clone) [Burnout] ”, Scales 2024 - “Troubleshooting: The Skill That Never Goes Obsolete ”, Curiositry 2024
- “People Overlook Subtractive Changes Differently Depending on Age, Culture, and Task ”, Juvrud et al 2024
- “A Vision Check-Up for Language Models ”, Sharma et al 2024
- “Schist01: A Wrist-Mounted Keyboard Prototype ”, LeBlanc 2023
- “IconShop: Text-Guided Vector Icon Synthesis With Autoregressive Transformers ”, Wu et al 2023b
- “An Empirical Study & Evaluation of Modern CAPTCHAs ”, Searles et al 2023
- “Why Sqlite3 Temporary Files Were Renamed
etilqs_✱(2006) [Discussion] ”, News 2023 - “The Kellogg Doolittle Residence (High Desert House): Inside a Breathtaking Desert Mansion That Looks Like A Fossil ”, Digest 2023
- “Everyone Gets ‘The 90s’ Look Wrong so Let’s Fix It ”, waffled0g 2023
- “The Effect of Perceptual Load on Performance within IDE in People With ADHD Symptoms ”, Kasatskii et al 2023
- “The Art of the Shadow: How Painters Have Gotten It Wrong for Centuries [From The Visual World of Shadows] ”, Casati & Cavanagh 2023
- “The Cheap Web ”, Troesh 2023
- “Unbundling Tools for Thought ”, Borretti 2022
- “Creative Writing With Wordcraft, an AI-Powered Writing Assistant: Perspectives from Professional Writers ”, Ippolito et al 2022
- “The Oldest Plans to Scale of Human-Made Mega-Structures ”, Crassard et al 2022
- “I Regret My $46,000 Website Redesign ”, Lynch 2022
- “[Wikipedia Guessing Game Proposal] ”, Turntrout 2022
- “Expectation versus Experience: Evaluating the Usability of Code Generation Tools Powered by Large Language Models ”, Vaithilingam et al 2022
- “That’s Nothing Compared to Japanese Consumers. ”, tzs 2022
- “False Discovery in A/B Testing ”, Berman & Bulte 2021
- “Project Starline: A High-Fidelity Telepresence System ”, Lawrence et al 2021
- “Hacker News Folk Wisdom on Visual Programming ”, Keer 2021
- “People Systematically Overlook Subtractive Changes ”, Adams et al 2021
- “Adding Is Favoured over Subtracting in Problem Solving: A Series of Problem-Solving Experiments Reveal That People Are More Likely to Consider Solutions That Add Features Than Solutions That Remove Them, Even When Removing Features Is More Efficient ”, Meyvis & Yoon 2021
- “Experiences of Ugliness in Nature and Urban Environments ”, Felisberti 2021
- “How Developers Choose Names ”, Feitelson et al 2021
- “Entropy Trade-Offs in Artistic Design: A Case Study of Tamil kolam ”, Tran et al 2021
- “There’s a Tendency of Ideologues to Value Ideological Purity over Fitness ”, kristopolous 2021
- “Noise in the Landscape: Disputing the Visibility of Mundane Technological Objects ”, Fukushima 2020
- “Why Johnny Won’t Upgrade ”, Mattheij 2020
- “Tech Notes: The Success and Failure of Ninja ”
- “The History of the URL ”, Bloom 2020
- “Survey of Structural [Tree, AST, Orthodox] Editors ”, Pombrio 2020
- “All the Money in the World Couldn’t Make Kinect Happen: For a Moment a Decade Ago, the Game Industry Looked like a Very Different Place ”, Hester 2020
- “They Might Never Tell You It’s Broken ”, Chevalier-Boisvert 2019
- “Co-Dfns: A Data Parallel Compiler Hosted on the GPU § 2.1.4 Idiomatic APL ”, Hsu 2019 (page 33)
- “Hyrum’s Law: An Observation on Software Engineering ”, Wright 2019
- “How Can We Develop Transformative Tools For Thought? ”, Matuschak & Nielsen 2019
- “Dorodango, the Japanese Art of Making Mud Balls: Dorodango Author Bruce Gardner Shares the Story of How He Discovered the Japanese Art of Hikaru Dorodango ”, Gardner 2019
- “Piranesi’s Perspective Trick ”, Postle 2019
- “Local-First Software: You Own Your Data, in spite of the Cloud [Web] ”, Kleppmann et al 2019
- “A to Z of Modern Living: Future-Proof Design at Furniture Manufacturer Vitsœ’s Headquarters in Leamington Spa ”, House 2019
- “Fraidycat: Follow Blogs, Wikis, YouTube Channels, as well as Accounts on Twitter, Instagram, Etc from a Single Page ”, Condor 2019
- “Commercially Available Chairs in Star Trek ”, D’Oria et al 2019
- ZACH-LIKE, Zachtronics 2019
- “Capstone: A Tablet for Thinking § Visualizing the Copy-Paste Buffer ”, Ink & Switch 2018
- “Test & Roll: Profit-Maximizing A/B Tests ”, Feit & Berman 2018
- “Can Behavioral Tools Improve Online Student Outcomes? Experimental Evidence from a Massive Open Online Course ”, Patterson 2018
- “Exquisite Rot: Spalted Wood and the Lost Art of Intarsia ”, Elkind 2018
- “Community Interaction and Conflict on the Web ”, Kumar et al 2018
- “MR 3000 Dual Band Radio Device [Concept Art in Blender] ”, Cotter 2018
- “Wikipedia Continues to Have Separate Mobile and Desktop Sites. Why? ”
- Rams, Hustwit 2018
- “Computer Latency: 1977–2017 ”, Luu 2017
- “Amazon Celebrates 10th Holiday Season of Frustration-Free Packaging—An Invention That’s Helped Eliminate 181,000 Tons of Packaging and 307 Million Boxes, and Given Millions of Customers Holidays Without 'Wrap Rage' ”, Amazon 2017
- “Keyboard Latency ”, Luu 2017
- “A Deep Architecture for Unified Esthetic Prediction ”, Murray & Gordo 2017
- “Requiem for a Shuffle: Why Steve Jobs Told Me He Loved the Littlest IPod—And Why We’re Going to Miss It ”, Levy 2017
- “StreetStyle: Exploring World-Wide Clothing Styles from Millions of Photos ”, Matzen et al 2017
- “When Pixels Collide ”, sudoscript 2017
- “Designing Better File Organization around Tags, Not Hierarchies ”, Nayuki 2017
- “Software Engineering at Google ”, Henderson 2017
- “The Work Life of Developers: Activities, Switches and Perceived Productivity ”, Meyer et al 2017
- “General Pencil ”, Payne 2017
- “Visions of Algae in 18th-Century Botany ”, Feigenbaum 2016
- “Deep Learning the City: Quantifying Urban Perception At A Global Scale ”, Dubey et al 2016
- “13 Animals Made From 13 Circles ”
- “Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users: One of the (Many) Intriguing Parts of the WhatsApp Story Is That It Has Achieved Such Enormous Scale With Such a Tiny Team ”, Metz 2015
- “Autocomplete As an Interface ”, Kuhn 2015
- “When Failure Sneaks into Stealth Games ”, Yang 2015
- “Always Bet on Text ”, graydon2 2014
- “Literate Programming: Knuth Is Doing It Wrong ”, Agaram 2014
- “Bored Mondays and Focused Afternoons: the Rhythm of Attention and Online Activity in the Workplace ”, Mark et al 2014
- “‘The Door Problem’ of Game Design: ‘So What Does a Game Designer Do?’ They Ask. It’s a Hard Question to Answer—Especially to People outside of Games—So I Came up With a Simple, Direct Response. ‘Let Me Tell You about Doors…’ ”, England 2014
- “STRML: Projects and Work ”, Reed 2014
- “Evaluating Lehman’s Laws of Software Evolution within Software Product Lines: A Preliminary Empirical Study ”, Oliveira et al 2014
- “The Evolution of the Laws of Software Evolution: A Discussion Based on a Systematic Literature Review ”, Herraiz et al 2013
- “On the Evolution of Lehman’s Laws ”, Godfrey & German 2013
- “Apple’s Product Strategy: A Thousand No’s For Every Yes [WWDC 2013 Intro Video] ”, Apple 2013
- “The Third User, Or, Exactly Why Apple Keeps Doing Foolish Things ”, Tognazzini 2013
- “An Empirical Study of Lehman’s Law on Software Quality Evolution ”, Yu & Mishra 2013
- “The Olivetti Valentine Typewriter ”, Hill 2012
- “Thief 1’s ‘Assassins’ Level & Environmental Storytelling ”, Yang 2012
- “Programmer Information Needs After Memory Failure ”, Parnin & Rugaber 2012
- “Evaluating the Design of the R Language: Objects and Functions for Data Analysis ”, Morandat et al 2012
- “The Configuration Complexity Clock ”, Hadlow 2012
- “How Trello Is Different ”, Spolsky 2012
- “STEPS Toward Expressive Programming Systems: "A Science Experiment" ”, Ohshima et al 2012 (page 2)
- “Utility of Human-Computer Interactions: Toward a Science of Preference Measurement ”, Toomim et al 2011
- “Killing Orson Welles at Midnight ”
- “Those White Plastic Chairs: The Monobloc and the Context-Free Object ”, Zuckerman 2011
- “Does Your IPod Really Play Favorites? ”, Froelich et al 2009
- “Beware Trivial Inconveniences ”, Alexander 2009
- “How To Successfully Compete With Open Source Software ”, McKenzie 2009
- “If You Don’t Change the UI, Nobody Notices: I Saw a Screenshot a Few Days Ago That Made Me Think Windows 7 Beta Might Actually Be worth Checking Out. ”, Atwood 2009
- “Podalida [Mirror] ”, Dahlqvist 2009
- “Mars Explorers Wanted Posters ”, Center 2009
- “Building a Princess Saving App: How to Build Learning and Fun into Your Applications ”, Cook 2008
- “Three Doors to Other Worlds ”, Crompton 2008
- “The Impact of Control-Display Gain on User Performance in Pointing Tasks ”, Casiez et al 2008
- “The Complex Dynamics of Collaborative Tagging ”, Halpin et al 2007
- “Habitat Chronicles: The Untold History of Toontown’s SpeedChat (Or BlockChat™ from Disney Finally Arrives) ”, Farmer 2007
- “Signing Party: The Artists Sign Their Work ”, Hertzfeld 2004
- “Gorilla Arm [Jargon File] ”, Raymond 2003
- “On Permalinks and Paradigms… [Invention of Blog ‘Permalinks’] ”, Coates 2003
- “The Art of Unix Programming § The Right Size for an Editor ”, Raymond 2003
- “Taste for Makers ”, Graham 2002
- Zendo, Heath 2002
- “Extending Fitts’ Law to a 3-Dimensional Pointing Task ”, Murata & Iwase 2001
- “Maxims or Myths of Beauty? A Meta-Analytic and Theoretical Review ”, Langlois et al 2000
- “Choices ”, Spolsky 2000
- “Conversations: Greg Lynn ”, Lynn & Weinstein 2000
- “Re: Xanadu–some Initial Reactions [NeWS, Elisp, HyperTIES, GNU Info] ”, Hopkins 1999
- “Re: Xanadu–some Initial Reactions [The Need for Scripting Languages] ”, Hopkins 1999
- “Web Precursor Xanadu Project Goes Open Source: A Brilliant Collection of Ideas That Was Never Going to Ship—So Is It Relevant? ”, Lea 1999
- Tokyo: A Certain Style, Tsuzuki 1997
- “The Killer Tag [HTML Transclusions] ”, Winer 1996
- “Laws of Software Evolution Revisited ”, Lehman 1996
- “[On Perverse Incentives in Programming] ”, Adams 1995
- “A Plea for Lean Software ”, Wirth 1995
- “How Learning by Doing Is Done: Problem Identification in Novel Process Equipment ”, Hippel & Tyre 1995
- “Tokyo Style (Book Review) ”, Thornburg 1994
- “Designing to Facilitate Browsing: A Look Back at the HyperTIES Workstation Browser ”, Shneiderman et al 1991
- “Lisp: Good News, Bad News, How to Win Big [Worse Is Better] ”, Gabriel 1991
- “The Lessons of Lucasfilm’s Habitat ”, Morningstar & Farmer 1990
- “Supporting Document Development With Concordia ”, Walker 1988
- “Selection Devices for User of an Electronic Encyclopedia: An Empirical Comparison of 4 Possibilities ”, Ostroff & Shneiderman 1988
- “Document Examiner: Delivery Interface for Hypertext Documents ”, Walker 1987
- “The Little Can That Could ”, Daniel 1987
- “Braun ET66 Calculator ”
- “An Experimental Comparison of a Mouse and Arrow-Jump Keys for an Interactive Encyclopedia ”, Ewing et al 1986
- “Crabs: the Bitmap Terror ”, Cardelli 1985
- “Programming As Theory Building ”, Naur 1985
- Program Evolution: Processes of Software Change, Lehman & Bélády 1985
- “A Retrospective on the Dorado, a High-Performance Personal Computer ”, Pier 1983
- “Contrasting Concepts of Harmony in Architecture ”, Alexander & Eisenman 1982
- “Epigrams on Programming ”, Perlis 1982
- “Programs, Life Cycles, and Laws of Software Evolution ”, Lehman 1980
- “On Understanding Laws, Evolution, and Conservation in the Large-Program Life Cycle ”, Lehman 1979
- “The Apple Marketing Philosophy: Empathy • Focus • Impute ”, Markkula 1977 (page 9)
- Tools for Thought, Waddington 1977
- “Designing Organizations for an Information-Rich World ”, Simon 1971
- “They Became What They Beheld § Foreword ”, Carpenter 1970 (page 5)
- “A Computer Movie Simulating Urban Growth in the Detroit Region ”, Tobler 1970
- “Design for an Intelligence-Amplifier ”, Ashby 1956
- Ein Totentanz, Draesner 1922
- “Ornament and Crime ”, Loos 1910
- “The Importance of Being Textual ”, Raymond 2025
- “The Turing Complete User ”
- “V E H I C L E Gallery ”, Nagai 2025
- “Bits of Hackage ”
- “Ergonomics of the Symbolics Lisp Machine ”
- “The Secret of Psalm 46 (2002) ”
- “The Right Size for an Editor ”, Raymond 2025
- “Big Ball of Mud ”
- “The Life-Changing Magic of Japanese Clutter ”
- “Using Static Websites for Tiny Archives ”
- “Computers Doing The Right Thing ”
- “Wrangling Guideline ”, Own 2025
- “Institute for Controlled Speleogenesis ”
- “Logitech MX Master 3 vs 2S Teardown: Our Favorite Mouse Got Even Better ”
- “20 Years of Git. Still Weird, Still Wonderful. [Worse Is Better] ”
- “Operant Conditioning by Software Bugs ”, Regehr 2025
- “The Soul of Maintaining a New Machine—First Draft ”, Kelly 2025
- “Danbooru ”, Danbooru 2025
- “Line Length Revisited: following the Research ”
- “Rules of Machine Learning ”, Google 2025
- “Q&A § Brexit Logo Design ”, Cummings 2025
- “At Any Given Moment in a Process…we Have a Certain Partially Evolved State of a Structure. This State Is Described by the Wholeness: the System of Centers, and Their Relative Nesting and Degrees of Life. ”
- “Dynamicland ”, Victor 2025
- “Hypertext Tools from the 80s ”
- “Falsehoods Programmers Believe About X ”
- “Kingnobro/IconShop: (SIGGRAPH Asia 2023) Code of ‘IconShop: Text-Guided Vector Icon Synthesis With Autoregressive Transformers’ ”
- “Loom: Multiversal Tree Writing Interface for Human-AI Collaboration ”, Janus 2025
- “
sam2_hierarch: Unsupervised Human-Friendly Online Object Categorization ”, UtilityHotbar 2025 - “IconShop ”
- “Fan Is A Tool-Using Animal ”
- “CONTENTdm ”
- “The UX of LEGO Interface Panels ”
- “The Door Problem ”
- “Daniel Cook ”, Cook 2025
- “Copying Is the Way Design Works ”
- “Beware of the Robot Pharmacist ”, Wachter 2025
- “The Secret of Minecraft, and Its Challenge to the Rest of Us ”, Sloan 2025
- “Yesterday’s Pixels, Today ”, Nasser 2025
- “The Pixel Art Tutorial ”
- “17th Century Calligraphy from Germany ”
- “Alexander Graham Bell’s Tetrahedral Kites (1903–9) [Image Gallery] ”, Review 2025
- “Lewis Carroll’s Illustrations for Alice’s Adventures Under Ground (1864) ”
- “Chladni Figures (1787) ”
- “D. A. Rovinskii’s Collection of Russian Lubki (18th–19th Century) ”
- “Anton Seder’s The Animal in Decorative Art (1896) ”
- “‘Clouds of Unknowing’: Edward Quin’s Historical Atlas (1830) ”
- “Owen Jones’ Examples of Chinese Ornament (1867) ”
- “French Silk Sample Book (Ca. 1900) ”
- “Henrique Alvim Corrêa’s Illustrations for The War of the Worlds (1906) ”
- “Images from Japanese Design Magazine Shin-Bijutsukai (1902) ”
- “Japanese Firemen’s Coats (19th Century) ”
- “Flowers of Fire: Illustrations from Japanese Fireworks Catalogues (Ca. 1880s) ”
- “John Locke’s Method for Common-Place Books (1685) ”
- “An Iconic Line: Claude Mellan’s The Sudarium of Saint Veronica (1649) ”
- “On the Writing of the Insane (1870) ”
- “Joseph Perry’s Medical Illustrations of Miscarriage (1834) ”
- “Plague Doctor Costumes ”
- “The Reverse of a Framed Painting, and Other Trompe L’oeil by Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts (Ca. 1670) ”
- “Adolf Schmidt’s Atlas Der Diatomaceenkunde (1890) ”
- “Solid Objects: 16th-Century Geometric and Perspective Drawings ”
- “Studies on Twilight Phenomena, After Krakatoa (1888) ”
- “The Geometric Landscapes of Lorenz Stoer (1567) ”
- “The Unicorn Tapestries (1495–1505) ”
- “Unai No Tomo: Catalogues of Japanese Toys (1891–1923) ”
- “Designs from Kimono Pattern Books (Ca. 1902) ”
- “William Hogarth’s Satire on False Perspective (1754) ”
- “Defining the Demonic ”
- “Designing the Sublime: Boullée and Ledoux’s Architectural Revolution ”
- “Emma Willard’s Maps of Time ”
- “Loie Fuller and the Serpentine ”
- “Marxist Astronomy: The Milky Way According to Anton Pannekoek ”
- “Modern Babylon: Ziggurat Skyscrapers and Hugh Ferriss’s Retrofuturism ”
- “Stuffed Ox, Dummy Tree, Artificial Rock: Deception in the Work of Richard and Cherry Kearton ”
- “Blogging versus Blog Setups ”
- “Akin’s Laws of Spacecraft Design ”
- “The Borderlands Gun Collector’s Club ”, Yegge 2025
- “Simpler Doesn’t Mean What Tesla Thinks It Means ”
- “What Telephones Can Tell You about Good Design ”
- “The Little Can That Could ”
- “Nota: A New Medium for Communicating Research on Programming Languages ”, Crichton 2025
- “Against the Survival of the Prettiest ”
- “The Decline of Usability ”
- “Gnome Files: A Detailed UI Examination ”
- “The Decline of Usability: Revisited ”
- “Doctor Seuss: Secret Art and Archive Works ”, Seuss 2025
- “History’s Largest & Most Famous Disability Access Ramp [Built for the Medici] ”, Palmer 2025
- “America Was Supposed to Be Art Deco ”
- “The Forgotten Pixel Art Masterpieces of the PlayStation 1 Era by Richmond Lee ”
- “What Board Games Teach Us About Data Visualization by Johannes Wirges ”
- “Sony TR-1825 AM Radio ”
- “Are We Really Engineers? ”, Wayne 2025
- “What Engineering Can Teach (And Learn From) Us ”, Wayne 2025
- “Downsized Dwellings: Inside Tokyo’s Tiny Living Spaces ”
- “Arbital Postmortem ”
- “Olivetti Valentine ”, Soul 2025
- “The UX on This Small Child Is Terrible ”
- “How a Naked Skydive Inspired a Way to Keep Pilots Oriented in Flight ”
- “The History of the Gibson Black Beauty ”
- “Studies on Natural Populations of Drosophila. II. Heritability and Response to Selection for Wing Length in Drosophila Melanogaster and D. Simulans at Different Temperatures ”
- “How the World’s Foremost Maze-Maker Leads People Astray ”
- “For Blind Internet Users, the Fix Can Be Worse Than the Flaws ”
- “Final Fantasy 7: An Oral History ”
- “Introducing a New Look for The Atlantic: A Conversation With the Magazine’s Creative Director, Peter Mendelsund, about Our Bold New Design ”
- “Tog’s Paradox [Jevons Paradox for Software Features] ”
- “Colors in Movies and TV: What Happened to Them? ”
- “How the Web Became Unreadable ”
- “Cheap Ornament and Status Games ”
- “The Genius Design of Cowboy Bebop’s Titles ”
- “HUMAN’20: ‘A Live Demo of the Intermedia Hypertext System’ (Norman K. Meyrowitz) ”
- Wikipedia (73)
- Miscellaneous
- Bibliography
See Also
Gwern
“Project Xanadu: Even More Hindsight ”, Gwern 2025
“ChatGPT-O3: Website Design Feedback Ideas [Total Site Review Confabulation] ”, GPT-o3 & Gwern 2025
ChatGPT-o3: Website Design Feedback Ideas [total site review confabulation]
“Traffic Lights: Yes, Maybe, No—Can You Please Repeat The Question? ”, Gwern 2025
Traffic Lights: Yes, Maybe, No—Can You Please Repeat The Question? :
“Cleanup When: Before or After? ”, Gwern 2022
“Rock-Paper-Scissors Optimality ”, Gwern 2024
“Towards Better RSS Feeds ”, Gwern 2024
“Hierarchical Embeddings for Text Search ”, Gwern 2024
“‘Tools For Thought’ Failure ”, Gwern 2024
“Virtual Comments: LLM Idea ”, Gwern 2024
“Celebrity Masquerade Game Proposal ”, Gwern 2024
“Research Ideas ”, Gwern 2017
“About This Website ”, Gwern 2010
“Hybridizing Forums/wikis Proposal ”, Gwern 2024
“Nenex: A Neural Personal Wiki Idea ”, Gwern 2023
“Cat Itecture: Better Cat Window Boxes ”, Gwern 2023
“Twitter Follow-Request UX Problems ”, Gwern 2023
“Open Questions ”, Gwern 2018
“Why Do Hipsters Steal Stuff? ”, Gwern 2022
“Technology Holy Wars Are Coordination Problems ”, Gwern 2020
“On Having Enough Socks ”, Gwern 2017
“Bitcoin Is Worse Is Better ”, Gwern 2011
“Candy Japan’s New Box A/B Test ”, Gwern 2016
“Wikipedia and Other Wikis ”, Gwern 2009
Links
“Tangled Dürer: The 6 Knots (Ca. Before 1521) ”, Tokumitsu 2025
layer07_yuxi @ "2025-05-06"
“Clippy Desktop Assistant ”, Rieseberg 2025
“The Raccoons Who Made Computer Magazine Ads Great: In the 1980s and 1990s, PC Connection Built Its Brand on a Campaign Starring Folksy Small-Town Critters. They’ll Still Charm Your Socks ”, McCracken 2025
“Creating Bluey: Tales from the Art Director ”, Drummond 2025
“CERN ‘Ophanim’ Circuit Board ”, jaseg 2025
“How the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg Got Added to the White House Signal Group Chat: Internal Investigation Cleared the National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, but the Mistake Was Months in the Making ”, Lowell 2025
“The Barium Experiment [Writing a Custom X.org GUI Library in Common Lisp] ”, Szilagyi 2025
The Barium Experiment [writing a custom X.org GUI library in Common Lisp]
“Iconography of the PuTTY Tools [History & Development of GUI Icons] ”, Tatham 2025
Iconography of the PuTTY tools [history & development of GUI icons] :
“The Balatro Timeline [Design Iteration] ”, LocalThunk 2025
“Levels of Friction ”, Mowshowitz 2025
“Developer Philosophy ”, Hughes 2025
“My Technological Regrets [In Designing Elm Apps] ”, Thomas 2025
“Norman Foster’s Architectural Empire ”
“NeuralSVG: An Implicit Representation for Text-To-Vector Generation ”, Polaczek et al 2025
NeuralSVG: An Implicit Representation for Text-to-Vector Generation
“Laziness, Impatience, Hubris: The 3 Programmer Virtues ”, WikiWikiWeb 2025
“The Color of Memory: Albert Kahn’s Archives of the Planet ”, Linden 2024
“Book Review: From Bauhaus To Our House (Tom Wolfe 1981) ”, Alexander 2024
“The Rollercoaster King: the Man behind the UK’s Fastest Thrill-Ride ”
The rollercoaster king: the man behind the UK’s fastest thrill-ride
“How I Designed a Dieter Rams-Inspired IPhone Dock ”, Arslan 2024
“Glue and Coprocessor Architectures ”, Buterin 2024
“Algorithms We Develop Software By ”, Slatton 2024
“Netnews: The Origin Story ”, Bellovin 2024
“Navigating Corporate Giants: Jeffrey Snover and the Making of PowerShell ”, Snover & Bell 2024
Navigating Corporate Giants: Jeffrey Snover and the Making of PowerShell
“Total War: ROME II and Creative Assembly—My Statement 10 Years On ”, McKinlay 2024
Total War: ROME II and Creative Assembly—My Statement 10 Years On
“On Complex Simplicity and Simple Complexity ”, Svensson 2024
“If OpenSSL Were a GUI ”, Tashian 2024
“Reflections on 98.css (Windows 98 GUI Clone) [Burnout] ”, Scales 2024
“Troubleshooting: The Skill That Never Goes Obsolete ”, Curiositry 2024
“People Overlook Subtractive Changes Differently Depending on Age, Culture, and Task ”, Juvrud et al 2024
People overlook subtractive changes differently depending on age, culture, and task
“Schist01: A Wrist-Mounted Keyboard Prototype ”, LeBlanc 2023
“IconShop: Text-Guided Vector Icon Synthesis With Autoregressive Transformers ”, Wu et al 2023b
IconShop: Text-Guided Vector Icon Synthesis with Autoregressive Transformers
“An Empirical Study & Evaluation of Modern CAPTCHAs ”, Searles et al 2023
“Why Sqlite3 Temporary Files Were Renamed etilqs_✱ (2006) [Discussion] ”, News 2023
Why sqlite3 temporary files were renamed etilqs_✱ (2006) [discussion] :
“The Kellogg Doolittle Residence (High Desert House): Inside a Breathtaking Desert Mansion That Looks Like A Fossil ”, Digest 2023
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