Ilya Birman’s Blog

Check out a new user interface project — Jetem Taxi app design:

First, a little historical background.

Jouele 4.0 has been released: Improves long-audio seeking (the browser can request the relevant HTTP byte range instead of waiting for earlier audio to download), supports Opera better, and restores the broken setOptions () method.

When Apple announced iOS 26 last summer, they said you would finally be able to manually choose which microphone to use.

In John Gruber’s Talk Show #453 with Louie Mantia, the familiar point comes up again: Liquid Glass is particularly bad on the Mac, where it is least well thought through.

When you hear that some app was “vibe coded”, how much quality do you expect?

At the beginning of the recent ATP episode, Marco Arment talked about the Episode Limit feature in Overcast (the discussion starts at around 7:50).

There is a principle in user interface design that I call “Let me click”.

I’ve published a lot of stuff designed for Chelyabinsk transport over the years:

Let’s talk about software lag.

I came away from this year’s WWDC keynote surprisingly optimistic.

Dear Steve Lemay, Please consider paying some attention to fixing the user interface problems Jony Ive and Alan Dye have made during their years.

In airports and at public transport stops, you often see screens that need to show more information than can physically fit.

There’s no design in digital products anymore.

I’m happy to show and tell you about a great and very interesting project I’ve done last year.

The internet is celebrating the news that Alan Dye, Apple’s head of design, is leaving.

In Norton Commander, as well as in Windows Explorer it’s always been the norm that folders go first, then files.

How much can a design change when adapting it for mobile?

Check out the Superpedestrian fleet management interface: I like designing interfaces of this kind where you need to figure out an obscure process.

Check out the new Samara metro map: Designed by Nikolay Romanov, directed by myself.

New email apps keep coming out, trying to organize your inbox.