The funny font from vintage Microsoft Word has an unbelievable past and great influence on today’s culture.

We created a 3-D model of Greenwood, home of “Black Wall Street,” as it was before a white mob set it on fire 100 years ago.

Eric Meyer, web standards and CSS guru, revisits some of his handwritten notes on CSS from a quarter-century ago and reflects on all the years since.

Uncover or revisit 9 classic UX books from the 1980s by Norman, Tufte, Shneiderman, and others.

In June of 2006, web developers and designers from around the world came to London for the second annual @media conference.

In 1996, Japanese toy designers Aki Maita and Yokoi Akihiro debuted the first ever Tamagotchi.

Explore the evolution of car design through a data visualization of all cars designed by the big Italian design studios.

Over the past few years, I kept bumping into something called Hershey fonts.

Today Microsoft Windows is installed on about 75% of personal computers in the world. But how did it begin?

15 women who have made lasting contributions to design.

It was the year 1994 that the web came out of the shadow of academia and onto the everyone’s screens.

A written and visual history of the 20 year old UI/UX design studio.

Typefaces and fonts are born in type foundries. Read on for how they came to be and who are the world’s biggest type foundries.

The story of the classic Walkman ended in 2010 when Sony retired the cassette player. Sony sold around 200 million cassette players, and the total ...

A look at the evolution of Netflix's Annual Report designs and pondering the question what happened to the designs more recently?

Did you know that several Apple Watch faces are digital reinterpretations of iconic real-life watches?

The Capitol rioters wore pelts, carried flags, and plastered themselves with logos that hid deeper meanings.

How much have design tools changed since the dawn of Xerox technologies in the 80s? Have the basic conventions shifted much? Let’s find out.

We may think of flags as fixed symbols with a specific meaning, but there are few symbols whose significance is truly permanent.

An ongoing chronicle of internet history for developers and the technically curious - from a development perspective rather than a business one.