metaphor
Only in terms of other things
A renaming of the already named
The door handle is the handshake of a building
The strange familiar and the familiar strange
An emblem of friendship
Metaphors We Web By
Websites are not living rooms and other lessons for information architecture
Negative Creativity
Art is memory's mise-en-scène
The Right Tools for the Job
A representational tension
The teleology of tool-building
Urban form and grain
Software often feels inevitable
Software often feels inevitable because its backstory is often invisible. We click a download link, run an installer, and suddenly have a new tool to use. Yet this conceals years of human decisions, experiences, and constraints shaping software outcomes that are in no way pre-destined.