Design Philosophy

Essays & Theoretical Frameworks

  • The Honest Pixel

    Performance is not a technical footnote to aesthetics — it is the aesthetic. A dropped frame is a broken promise, and users feel it before they can name it.

    manifesto · 7 min read

  • Easing Is Emotion

    Two animations, same duration, same distance — one feels polite, the other feels smug. The entire difference lives in the easing curve's second derivative.

    deconstruction · 6 min read

  • What Games Know About Interfaces

    Game design solved feedback, difficulty, and onboarding decades ago. Product design keeps rediscovering the solutions and calling them innovations.

    game-theory · 8 min read

  • Fitts's Law in the Void

    Dark interfaces change the math of attention: when the canvas is near-black, luminance becomes your largest click target. A working tour of target acquisition in dark UI.

    hci · 6 min read