Celebrate Christmas together with a look at America’s rich history of design.

The story behind the Gotham type family.

Very few graphic inventions have shaped the visual landscape of our everyday lives as quietly and ubiquitously as the barcode.

A brilliantly human photographer who celebrated the overlooked, finding beauty the mundane.

Reflecting on the master architect’s legacy and its relevance to current UX.

When Austrian philosopher Otto Neurath invented the visual language of Isotypes, it was to democratise education—but ended up impacting way more.

Interface as social signifier.

Before we all mute the word ‘dithering’, here's why we needed to dither digital images in the first place.

A zoomable map shows every page of every issue of BYTE: a monthly mainline of the entire personal computing universe.

We’re in 1995 again. This time with Artificial Intelligence.

This year, dot com turned 40. Nearly a billion domains have been registered during that period.

The original 8×8-pixel patterns that were in the original Control Panel for setting the desktop background and in MacPaint as fill patterns.

Browse IKEA catalogues through the ages, reflecting different eras and lifestyles—a goldmine for the nostalgic, design enthusiasts and history buffs.

We restore, unearth, and occasionally create interactive Google Easter eggs.

An archive of historical technological pessimism.

The marquee back then had to do a lot of work, because the games themselves were all low resolution and blocky affairs.

Chrome turns 17 this week, and it feels like a good time to reflect on how far we have come in terms of Chromes guiding principles.

The end of prohibition but also the start of the Great Depression and the looming threat of war. What a mix.

The “AI” Bubble feels more like the all-encompassing wasteland that was the 2007 bubble in Iceland than anything else.

A full-ish history of user interfaces that can be themed to meet the opportunities and constraints of the time.