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I’m in Austin to talk about iPhone interface design on March 15. Come say howdy.

Or, “Why I wrote and designed an entire book in Pages.” The web has changed the way we read, and my new book is part of an experiment to create a new kind of print storytelling, with lessons for writers, designers, and publishers alike.

A clever logo solution smuggles in the required legalese without cluttering the design.

An exhibition of torn poster art asks fascinatingly relevant questions in an era of online mashups and user-generated content.

My post office features a clever heat-map grid to announce slow and busy hours. A perfect idea for the web.

As Paris morphs into the Riviera, some clever icon design works its own transformation.

I wrote the “C25K” training program for new runners over a decade ago. Its philosophy overlaps neatly with my philosophy of software design.

Your faithful correspondent fell under the browbeating eye of authority on a few recent and essentially trivial occasions, making me think a bit about the effects of control, rule enforcement and tone in my own work.

Tons of cool historical design in the Paris subway is getting gutted.

When behind-the-scenes systems replace common sense and customer expectations. A parable at the coffee stand.

A coffee tasting leaves a caffeine buzz and a lesson that applies to design, too: In matters of taste, subtlety is everything.

A park bench becomes a subversive design element. Every project needs one.

A neighborhood landmark gets a garish transformation, and thoughts wander to designer responsibility and online communities.

User communities own and define technologies as much or more than the inventors. A piano from 1817 is the perfect example.

An Acropolis visit is an object lesson in the value of quiet design decisions amid colossal projects.

I kicked Microsoft Word to the curb seven years ago, and my plain-text world has been more productive ever since.

Currency may well be the most important travel interface. In that match-up, Europe wins the coin toss against the US, whose coins border on the unintelligible.

I expected nostalgic photos, but instead got insight into how technology works to spark design innovation.