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My name is Marcin Wichary (he/him). I’ve worked as a UX designer, typographer, front-end person, and manager at Google, Medium, and Figma. I’ve also written a book about keyboards and typing, gave talks, and published essays about design, typography, and technology.

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“A fair bit of finger gymnastics”

I don’t often link to new phone reviews, but I enjoyed this review of the iPhone Duo by Quinn Nelson at Snazzy Labs, because he spends a lot of time talking about software interactions, and multiple quirks and problems he encounters:

There’s this old writerly rule that in order to see your words anew, you should change the font, print them, and step away from your computer and read them on a patio (some people even swear by reading them out loud to yourself). This video felt similar – even outside of the focus on the Duo, it was interesting to me as it shed some new light on iPhone’s system-wide gestures like going back, invoking notifications, or interacting with the dynamic island.