Our Tashkent metro map was updated and has become an official map: ilyabirman.net/meanwhile/all/… Originally designed by Timur Repin and myself. The new version also used some input from Yulia Cherevataya and Alibek Musabekov. Come to us for more map design.

Here’s a video of my February talk at the Transit Mapping Symposium in Abu Dhabi. I was talking about my maps of course: youtube.com/watch?v=BJ7kbx…

Wayfinding elements for “Parus” station: ilyabirman.net/parus/

The problem with automatic email sorting: ilyabirman.net/meanwhile/all/…

Check out a new metro map for Samara: ilyabirman.net/samara/ Designed by Nikolay Romanov, directed by myself. Special thanks to Sergey Chikin and Leonid Motovskih.

Check out the Superpedestrian fleet management interface: ilyabirman.net/superpedestria…

How much can a design change when adapting it for mobile? Recognizability between mobile and desktop: ilyabirman.net/meanwhile/all/…

When you type to search in Finder, files and folders are mixed together: ilyabirman.net/meanwhile/all/…

If your design focus is on surface effects, it’ll be easy to copy. Apple conceived liquid glass as something special, but once it’s copied, the difference disappears. Everything that once made the difference is being wasted with each new working day of Alan Dye and Tim Cook.

Watching Apple degradation live

Liquid Glass is a design cancer. It consumes and overwhelms everything it touches by adding intense distortions, drop shadows, lighting effects, and unnatural spacing to controls and UI in ways that make them harder to see and understand. It is pretty, and seductive, but it

In airports and at public-transport stops you sometimes see displays that try to show more than they can physically fit. How to design them well: ilyabirman.net/meanwhile/draf…

Hoping for a brighter future at Apple: ilyabirman.net/meanwhile/all/…

Dear Figma, when I select a text block and press [T], it gets selected and I can edit it. When you introduced multi-edit, you forgot to support this, I need to press [Enter] intead. Could you please make [T] work as well when multiple text block are selected?

I’m happy to show and tell you about a great and very interesting project I’ve done last year. Tashkent Metro wayfinding: ilyabirman.net/tashkent-metro…

I’ve written a post about how design has been replaced by evolution. It’s about how “metrics-driven“ “design” is not design anymore, by definition. Please share: ilyabirman.net/meanwhile/all/…