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Web and software designers, take note: Spray-painted compasses in New York illustrate how helpful a thin layer of extra help can be for new arrivals.

Will Smith’s cringe-inducing wardrobe of the eighties got me thinking about the difficulty of truly timeless design. Dieter Rams to the rescue.

I posted a slew of pointers at O’Reilly Answers for designing a unique visual identity for iPhone apps.

It was a real treat to sit down with John Maeda to talk iPhone apps, economic development, and how to build a community of digital artisans.

I had a fun conversation with O’Reilly Online Managing Editor Mac Slocum about the differences designing for iPad vs iPhone.

The good folks at SXSW just posted the audio of my talk on Tapworthy app design. Have a listen and follow along with the slides, too.

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.