A book by Niko Tsybulevsky

Thoughts on Design and Humanity

An eclectic, honest collection about how to think about problems, design, and the humans behind every interface.

• Lion
• Before We Start
• I · Meaning — What a thing is before it looks like anything.
• Meaning
• Where Does a Screen Come From?
• Two Steps Ahead
• Note
• A Phone Is Not a Small Screen
• Before Beautiful Was an Option
• The Physics
• Note
• Design What It Is
• What Happens When They Finish?
• Not in a Lab
• II · Relationship — What it owes you, now that it means something.
• Relationship
• Why Are All Containers Bordered?
• The Gap Is Saying Something
• The Payload
• Where Does My Attention Belong?
• Every Treatment Is a Promise
• Hierarchy
• The URL Is the Honest One
• What Happens to Where I Was?
• Inheritance and Composition
• Where Does a Customer Live?
• What We Never Said
• III · Trust — Promises kept over time.
• Trust
• Behavior Is the Design You Can't See
• Silence Is a Message
• The Second Time You Delete Something
• When the Promise Breaks · to write
• When Things Go Wrong
• IV · Character — Who the thing turns out to be.
• The Pirouette
• Character
• The Floor Character Stands On
• We've Optimized the Soul Out
• The System's Voice
• The Login Is a Gate
• How to Make Them Yearn
• V · Humanity — The person on the other end.
• Humanity · to write
• Every Field Is an Ask
• The User Has a Face · to write
• 47 Documents
• Closing
• Return to Lion
• The Field Kit — What you come back for.
• The Field Kit
• The Tests
• The Decisions
• Codex: Inputs
• Codex: Top Layers
• Codex: Navigation
• Codex: The Form
• The Worksheet
• References