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2025

• Big Day
• SF Symbols
• Jungle Green
• A Matter of Perspective
• And Stay Out
• Luka on iOS 7
• It Hurts the Face
• What EPCOT Should Be
• My Mission
• A Long Train of Abuses
• Fresh Outta Civility
• Political Violence
• Style Compliment
• Culturally Imperialist
• A Good App
• The Talk Show
• Tap Tap Revolution
• Buddies
• Pixadex
• A Responsibility to the Industry
• New Junior Website
• The Web Is So Cool
• I’ve Got Better Things To Do Than This, and Yet
• Plastic
• Three Little Moments
• Rose-Gold-Tinted Liquid Glasses
• Please Make It Stop
• Special Delivery
• 2nd Japanniversary
• The Dystopian Dream Team
• It Is Important
• Apple Could Win Back Music
• Star Wars Wallpapers
• Golden Week
• Goodbye, Chief
• A Small Vacation
• CSS Naked Day
• The Mac Is Where I Am
• Hanami
• Should
• Chief’s 20th Birthday
• Introducing Kadomaru
• One-Time
• Luka’s Blogging!
• Gravitational Pull of Reese’s
• It’s All Anybody Can See
• Humane
• Gulf of Mexico
• Parakeet’s 10th Anniversary
• Pastrami Pork
• Where’s the Line?
• Two and a Half Kids
• Unforgivable
• Talking About Money
• Siri Will Never Win the Super Bowl
• Love Limitations
• Tommy Lee Jones
• The Most Mario Colors
• Withered Technology
• Or, Instead of All This—
• Range
• This Is Gonna Be Bad
• Refined Clarity
• AI Summaries
• Our Only Hope
• Old

2024

• Reclamation
• 2024 in Review
• Nowhere Place
• Everything Competes with Everything
• What Does Privacy Mean?
• At the Trolley Switch Again
• Learn to Code, Don’t Learn to Code
• Green Bubbles
• App Stores and Payment Methods
• Two Apps
• Creating for Myself
• Adapting to Japan
• Maybe It’s Social Media
• Steve’s Badge
• Nothing Left to Solve
• Doorbells
• The Most Famous Queen Song
• Quoting Walt Disney
• Keeping Tabs
• Primary Device
• Jerk Chicken
• 1024×1024
• Shibuya Bans Public Drinking
• Reality Distortion
• Arbitrarily Adapting
• RCS on iOS
• Thinking Different
• Civilized Society
• They Say AI Is Not Going Away
• Parakeet Portfolio
• Private Messaging
• Personal Identity
• Forbidden Fruit
• Training AI, Part 2
• Nandakke
• Shoes-Off Country
• Black & White
• Two Bookmarklets
• Intuition
• Magic Passport App Icon Development
• Love, Death, and Computers
• Qualifying Art
• That Should Be on a T-Shirt
• Training AI
• iPod
• Dark Mode App Icons
• Custom App Icons
• What Do We Want Computers to Do?
• Not Traditional
• Delusions of Grandeur
• 1st Japanniversary
• Distracted
• Distraction-Free
• Nearly-Live Translation
• Practicality vs. Possibility
• Content Moderation
• Antisocial Club
• Peaceful Protest
• Socialize Your Relationships
• Community Through Eating
• Womprat, Part I
• Helpful Automation
• Corporate Detox
• New Is Not Inherently Exciting
• Blocking Family
• Honestly, Though
• Human After All
• Why by Hand?
• Nothing to Show for It
• Don’t Compromise. Trade.
• What We Give Up
• Saul, David, and Paula
• Say Hello to Yellow
• Recap
• Inconsequential Mistakes
• Hate Discourse
• Skip, Close, Ignore
• How to Make a Damn Website
• GraferaZone
• Picky Eater
• Explicit Opt-In
• This Should Be a Blog Post
• Lack of Vision
• Building a Stronger Web Without AI
• Unethical Work
• Web Independence
• Anti-Ad-Block
• Wikipedia
• Disneyland Is Good For You
• Why Do You Like Disneyland?
• The West Wing Cartoon
• Question the Premise
• Craft Internet
• Yesterday Is Not Today
• The Never Ending Pasta Pass
• Make a Damn Website

2023

• XI: Rebel Moon
• X: Junior
• IX: Crown
• VIII: Parakeet
• VII: Shanghai Disneyland
• Nippon
• Arguments
• Infinitely Idle
• Food in Las Vegas is Weird
• VI: Pacific Helm
• Especially When It’s Difficult
• V: Square
• IV: Apple
• III: The Iconfactory
• II: Obama ’08
• I: Tapulous
• Fear of Confronting Intolerance
• Routine

2022

• CSS for This Blog
• The Way of Water
• Zero Sum
• Success
• Making Time
• The Teenage Web

• What Makes a Good Logo
• Never a Good Time
• Lizzo Lyrics

2021

• Disneyland Is Real
• How to Give Feedback
• Exploitation Via Competition
• Demanding Employers

2020

• Visual Richness

2017

• A Typeface from Yesterday, for Tomorrow …Today?
• The Quiznos Business Model
• Pico

2016

• Tinkering
• Epcot Edutainment
• Lightning
• How Disney Can Get Rid of Annual Passes
• The Mint Julewhip™
• Your Software Updates Are Not That Important
• Pokémon GO
• Design at 2×—It’s Not a Bad Idea

2014

• Attaching Meaning to Logos
• Real Horses

2013

• ASAP
• Skeuomorphism
• About App Icons

2012

• Naming iPhones
• How to Be the Best Client
• Designed Delight
• Lukewarm Reactions

2011

• Social Networks
• iPhone 5 or 6?
• Steve Jobs and Me

2010

• Trending Topics, Part 2
• Trending Topics, Part 1
• Free Ideas for Disney Parks
• Multitasking
• Flash Design

2009

• Thousands of Colors
• App Settings

2008

• AppleTV + App Store
• iPhone Favorites
• The Importance of Icon Sizes
• The Importance of Icon Metaphors