Wall

Things I keep coming back to.

Dachshund on a sofa, M. Kaufmann, 1915
Painting

Dachshund on a Sofa — M. Kaufmann, 1915. Pepe doesn't know this exists.

Green halftone greyhound wearing a tie
Illustration Machine

A greyhound in a tie, one colour and a halftone dot. Made with Gemini in my own image pipeline.

"The details are not the details. They make the design."
— Charles Eames
Bookmark

Laws of UX

The best single reference for justifying design decisions to engineers.

lawsofux.com →
Green halftone greyhound using a vintage Macintosh inside a Windows 95 window
Illustration Machine

Same dog, now at a Macintosh Plus — inside a Windows 95 window. Two OS wars, one very calm greyhound.

All-time favourite

Dr. Hook — The Truth

My all-time favourite album.

Listen →
"Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean."
— Steve Jobs
Read

10 Usability Heuristics

Nielsen's checklist. Still the most useful thing in product design after 30 years.

nngroup.com →
Persona 5 Royal — Nintendo Switch cartridge
Currently playing

Persona 5 Royal. The UI alone is worth the 100 hours.

"A user interface is like a joke. If you have to explain it, it's not that good."
— Martin LeBlanc
All-time

Yellow Magic Orchestra

Synthesizers before anyone knew what to do with them. Still ahead.

Halftone corporate headshot dissolving into digital glitch, with a loading bar and pixel smiley
Illustration Machine

Corporate headshot caught mid-buffer. The progress bar never finishes and the smiley doesn't care.