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• The Gist of Web Design

• Think Ahead

• Mastodon’s Structural Choices

• TAOI: Airbnb Summer 2022 Release

• TAOI: Apple Home App Redesign

• Power of Ten Episode 22: “Information Gardens”

• Overcoming the Scarcity of Context

• TAOI: A Clearer Nav Structure in Gmail

• Revisiting IA's Past

• The Language Wall

• YouTube Hiding Dislike Counts

• Finding Language/Market Fit

• More Obvious Advanced Search Affordances

• Automating File/Folder Structures

• Wikimedia's New Leader on Preventing Misinformation

• The Waning File/Folder Mental Model

• Can Twitter Communities Prevent Context Collapse?

• Jimmy Wales on Constraints for Bad Behavior

• Om Malik on Being Categorized by Data

• The Cognitive Costs of Bad UX

• TAOI: Hair Texture Filters

• TAOI: Facebook Mobile Settings

• TAOI: The “Ethnic” Aisle

• TAOI: New Apple Store Page

• AI-driven “Design”?

• Ted Lasso and Twitter

• Crowdfunding as Market Validation

• Tweaking Users' Mental Models

• Becoming Better Users of Online Information

• Machine Intelligence and the Design of Complex Systems

• The Last Illusion

• Dark IA?

• Modeling for Automated Organization

• To TV or Not to TV

• Stripping in Information

• Flexibility vs. Ease-of-use

• Architectural Skeuomorphism

• Challenges in Designing for Emerging Technologies

• Don't Subscribe; Follow

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• Citibank's $500m ‘UI’ Problem

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• Structural Antidotes for Misinformation

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• Documenting the Early Stages of Creative Work

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• Medium is Bringing Back Custom Domains

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• The Expertise Trap in UX Critiques

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• Startups and the Big Picture

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• Caring as a Core Design Principle

• More Effective Remote Brainstorming

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• Structure Changes More Slowly Than Look-and-feel

• Do You See the Big Picture?

• The Electronic Whole Earth Catalog

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• Tour of an F-15 Jet Fighter User Interface

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• The Shortcomings of Online Events

• Gaining Clarity in Times of Uncertainty

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• Addressing Systemic Racial Injustice

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• What Google Classroom Says About Our Priorities

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• TAOI: The Prioritization of Search Results in Apple Apps

• Effects of the Pandemic on Podcast Listening

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• Making the Company's Vision Tangible

• TAOI: Better Search and Context in Figma

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• A New Normal

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• Slack’s Information Architecture Redesign

• Banning Targeted Advertising?

• Leading in Information

• Come Together (in Information Environments)

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• Legislating the Structure of Information Environments

• Coronavirus and Remote Collaboration

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• Label-less Buttons

• TAOI: Grouping Albums in Apple Music

• Outlook Spaces

• Apple’s Services Pivot and Persuasion

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• Don’t Make Me Think, Harley Quinn Edition

• Designers as Team Players

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• Early 20th Century Car Navigation Systems

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• Reid Hoffman on Language, Big Tech, and Society

• Climate Change and Company Prospects

• The Pull of the Present

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• How Social Media Warps Democracy

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• You Are Being Tracked

• Mind Your Manners Online

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• Rediscovering Information Architecture

• Preserving Open Source Software for the Long Term

• No More Customer Reviews on Apple.com

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• Causes of (and Remedies for) Bias in AI

• Tending Your Industry's Ecosystem

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• Hiding Incompatible Apps in the Microsoft Store

• The Perfect Framing for an Information Architecture Challenge

• TAOI: Incompatible Apps in the Microsoft Store

• Binge Faster

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• Changes to iOS 13’s Mail Toolbar

• Quantum Supremacy

• Paola Antonelli on the Role of Designers

• Collaborating by Default

• John Cale on Victimhood

• The Synthesizers In Charge

• Are Dating Apps Making Marriages Stronger?

• From Monolithic to Distributed Architectures

• Ethics and Patience in Design

• Touchscreens and the Loss of Nuanced Control

• Progress Studies

• Chuck Jones and the Power of Discipline

• Neal Stephenson on Social Media

• Design for Long-Term Relevance

• Learning From Books

• Blogging as Gardening

• On “Content”

• TAOI: Podcasts on Spotify

• The Dollar Value of Metadata

• A Key to the Design Problem

• The Bridge Model

• Karl Popper on Definitions

• Proudshamed

• The Strategic Value of Design

• The Cynefin Framework

• Daniel Kahneman on Framing and Incentives

• Designers as Advocates of Respect

• Introductions in the Age of Social Networks

• Marc Andreessen’s Guide to Personal Productivity

• Design 3.0

• From the Digital Town Square to the Living Room

• Environment-Centered Design

• Stephen Wolfram’s Personal Information Ecosystem

• The Cognition Crisis

• Twitter as a Public Square

• The Way to Proficiency in Complex Environments

• A Data Primer for Designers

• Brexit Explained

• Bertrand Russell’s Advice for Future Generations

• The Limits of the Ethical Designer

• Anyone an Information Architect

• The Role of Structure in Digital Design

• TAOI: Adding More Context to Tweets

• The Urgent Design Questions of Our Time

• A Bold Example of Semantic Pollution

• Framing the Problem

• Four Types of Prototypes

• How to Measure Network Effects

• An Economy of Deception

• A Community In Search of a Home

• Working in a Second Language

• The Role of Advertisers in Shaping Digital Ecosystems

• Cybernetics and Planned Economies

• Designing for the Brilliant Cacophony

• Fritjof Capra on Ethics

• The Eponymous Laws of Tech

• Hugh Dubberly’s Approach to Understanding Problems

• Digital Nutrition

• Kranzberg’s Laws of Technology

• How To Frame an Argument

• The Next Twenty Years

• A Principle for Self-organizing Systems?

• Towards More Adaptive Information Environments

• The Possible and the Practical

• Trapped by Mental Models

• Something Real To Do

• Modeling in Design

• Joshua Prince-Ramus on the Architecture Design Process