From the archive
Selected Writing
Essays on computing, product design, and the ways technology changes how we live.
01
Computing and AI
Computers that understand intent, connect services, and recede into the background.
- Unconscious Computing A vision for computers that quietly handle work for us, so we can focus on living.
- The Successor to Siri and Open Data How an intelligent assistant could dynamically combine open data, services, and generated code.
- iOS 9 and the Information Ecosystem Apps as interoperable sources of actions and information rather than isolated destinations.
02
Product and design
Begin with human purpose, reduce friction, and let the interface fit the work.
- Design for Purpose Design products around what they accomplish for people—not around a list of features.
- The New Interface Is There Is No Interface The best mobile tools fit their context, accomplish the task, and disappear from attention.
- Design Products As a User Start with the user's need and role instead of beginning with available technology.
03
Technology and society
What new tools change about attention, work, knowledge, and public life.
- The Automated Future What happens when automation reaches knowledge work as well as manufacturing?
- On the Philosophy of Google Glass An always-present connection to the web, and the difference between information and knowledge.
- A Newspaper for the Web Context, curation, and finite editions in a world of abundant information.