The cost of selfishness | Riccardo Mori
Even our selfishness as users and customers — what makes us feel better about the choices we make or the choices we don’t make — is turned against us.| Riccardo Mori
Even our selfishness as users and customers — what makes us feel better about the choices we make or the choices we don’t make — is turned against us.| Riccardo Mori
What sparked my long-form article on Liquid Glass, and all the criticism I’ve posted on Mastodon since the WWDC25 keynote is just that the Liquid Glass redesign made me angry. Yes, there are better things to get angry about in the world right now, and I want you to know that I’m very angry about them all. In the past, technology used to be my coping space. A place for a knowledge worker like me to nerd about his tools and related passions — user interfaces, UI/UX design, typography, etc...| Riccardo Mori
Discussing icon design, and commenting on some passages of Apple's Adopting Liquid Glass document.| Riccardo Mori
Inattention to details is one of the reasons UIs are getting worse.| Riccardo Mori
A few observations after Apple’s introduction of the Liquid Glass user interface at the WWDC25 keynote.| Riccardo Mori
Re-reading some of the quotes curated by Michael Tsai in the already-discussed Rotten commentary round-up, I noticed this bit by Om Malik, which had escaped my attention for some reason: I have my own explanation, something my readers are familiar with, and it is the most obvious one. Just as Google is trapped in the 10-blue-link prison, which prevents it from doing something radical, Apple has its own golden handcuffs. It’s a company weighed down by its market capitalization and what stock...| Riccardo Mori
As usual, Michael Tsai assembles a remarkable roundup of opinions and reactions after John Gruber’s recent piece Something is rotten in the State of Cupertino, where he finally criticises Apple for essentially over-over-promising and under-under-underdelivering on Apple Intelligence, especially regarding the announced improvements to Siri. What I find involuntarily funny in this specific wave of criticism is that for some of these people this has been the straw that broke the camel’s back...| Riccardo Mori
The adjustment phase happened faster than I thought, honestly.| Riccardo Mori
The latest addition to an increasingly dysfunctional family.| Riccardo Mori
The Nothing company is helping me regain some enthusiasm for technology.| Riccardo Mori
Taking a brief look at the iPhone SE's history, and thinking about how the fourth-generation iPhone SE should look versus how it will likely look.| Riccardo Mori
Eleventh edition of my annual overview of the most interesting discoveries made during the previous year. This time it comes later than usual and it's shorter than usual. But 2023 was a bit unusual…| Riccardo Mori
Yet another status update to explain the recent lack of meaningful long-form articles on this blog.| Riccardo Mori
It's been a while, and no, I'm not dead.| Riccardo Mori
