Design
A detailed critique of Apple's icon design decisions in macOS Tahoe, examining how adding icons to every menu item violates fundamental UX principles — from lack of differentiation and cross-app inconsistency to illegibly tiny details and confusing metaphors.
Design
A hands-on guide to creating a proper sewn-binding book at home for virtually nothing — covering paper selection, software workflow for printing from DJVU or PDF sources, folding signatures, stitching, gluing, and assembling a fabric-covered hardcover.
Design
A quick Photoshop technique to create elegant textured backgrounds using noise layers, blend modes, and color tinting — in just a few simple steps.
Design
A Russian translation of Matthew Inman's (The Oatmeal) iconic comic satirizing the most annoying web design patterns that plagued the internet in the early 2010s.