My secrets for making my Mac a productivity monster.

Here are the best tools I know of for interaction design, information design and information architecture.

20 years later, it’s still hard to find the right window in a stack strewn across the desktop

How might the iPhone afford direct access to key apps and tasks without defiling its exterior with another dastardly button?

All kinds of potential goodness snuck in when Apple made the touchpad clickable.

How might the laptop form factor evolve?

Even UI designs as old as the Save dialog and the window titlebars have room for improvement.

Tilt an iPhone to scroll

The iPhone has a few things to learn from its grandpa.

How research, vision and design fit together to make breakthrough products

Users of music players have their eyes busy and their ears free. Why not use the ears to augment the UI?

Life is too short to listen to music you don’t like.

Basic UI deficiencies in common products we’ve suffered for for years or decades.

MyOwnBags demonstrate a nice clean differentiation. Plus, they make a great gift for stylish people!

The Chumby does nothing specific, a lot in general.

A couple of tweaks to the BART schedule planner would make it much more useful.

It should be easier to store pages to read later.

Can we tweak a gratuitous feature to make it a little bit more functional?

Sacrificing simplicity for the appearance of simplicity.

Reducing the needless UI overhead in Front Row.