Looking Back.
Retrospective notes from the studio — what we shipped, what we learned, what we'd do again. Some are technical post-mortems; some are platform-shift recaps (the death of Internet Explorer, the Apple Silicon transition complete in 2023, the Adobe XD wind-down); all are honest.
- 4 Sept 2025→
3D TVs: the trend that died very, very quietly.
Every TV had it in 2012. Every TV stopped having it by 2017. A short fond elegy for a feature that solved nothing, that briefly cost everyone an extra £200, and that nobody quite remembers being asked about.
- 12 Jun 2025→
BlackBerry: the keyboard empire that built the modern phone.
Push email, a clicky keyboard, and a trackball. Before the iPhone made all of it obsolete, BlackBerry made enterprise mobile a real category. Some affection for the device that taught the iPhone what to copy.
- 9 Jan 2025→
iPod Nano: the seven-generation product nobody could pin down.
Apple shipped seven Nano generations across eight years and never quite settled on what it was. A tall thin scroll-wheel, then a watch face, then a tall slim square. Each version was confident and obsolete.
- 4 Oct 2024→
Nintendo 64: the strangest controller that ever made sense.
Three handles. A trident in beige. An analog stick before anyone else shipped one. And a game library that defined what 3D could feel like. Some thoughts on a console that doesn't quite have an heir.
- 22 Aug 2024→
iPod Shuffle: music without a screen.
The most committed product in Apple's history. No screen, no menus, no playlists in the usual sense. Just press play and accept what comes next. A meditation on doing less.
- 15 Mar 2024→
The Nokia 3310, and the phone that survived everything.
A week of battery life, a screen the size of a postage stamp, and the ringtone that defined a generation. Some affection for the phone that taught us hardware doesn't have to be fragile.