Quibbletown
Quibbletown
Keren R. Bell
Hi! My name is Keren R. Bell (sounds like Kirby when abbreviated!) and I think a lot about design. I care a lot about User Experience, Apple, Figma, Nintendo, Arc browser, comically bad translations, serif titles with sans serif body texts, and ease-out animations.
Latest Posts
This is exciting.We’ve seen AI make and manipulate text, and do it pretty well.We’ve seen AI make and manipulate images, and do it… uh… At scale.But Google keeps trying to make this new thing. This more evolved thing. The difference...
The only reason me and my partner considered a PC was playing games. If the Steam Machine can also be easily used to stream/record gameplay, and maybe even run Discord too, there’s no longer a reason for me to see Windows again in the...
Murmurings of a “capacitive button only” iPhone have been floating about for a while. This rings alarm bells for some, excites others, and I wanted to formulate my thoughts on the idea. The downside comes from concerns of reliability and...
Reading Federico Viticci’s fantastic iOS & iPadOS 26 review, I had a tiny quibble about one thing, and it’s something many other people who discuss the new iPad multitasking system said recently: the notion that “Apple added Mac...
Meta recently unveiled their new, actually shipping this month, glasses that show you little apps on your eye. Their content is visible only to the wearer, can be read in broad daylight, and don’t look like ski goggles that isolate you...
If you ignored the captions under these icons, what is “Triangle made of three sticks”? what’s the difference between the two “Rectangle/Book that says A” icons? A lot of good pieces have been going around about the new icon language....
There’s a mistake at the core of Apple’s new Liquid Glass hierarchy. It’s that because the new material introduced for the design is semi-transparent in a new way, it should go above content whenever possible, enriching the experience.I...
Your name is ALAN DYE. You work at APPLE COMPUTERS INC. You have recently shipped a controversial new DESIGN SYSTEM, centering around LIQUID GLASS. Luckily for you, the system is still in BETA. Your goal is to tweak the parameters of...
I find concentricity in design beautiful.There’s something deeply “correct” to my brain about how from the bezels to the apps I use the most, a single anchoring point guides the design. And even with my deep love for concentricity- I...
I had a lot of hopes in the UX of Image Playground since it was announced. If we leave aside the fact the images generated by the app are still, just not very good, the process of image creation itself was promising to bring something...
Aside from the usual eye-rolling the word “Content” brings to many of us who put passion into our work, I have to wonder how much Liquid Glass will really do for all this Content that Apple seems so excited about bringing even further...
I wanted to pay some attention to a smaller design update across iOS 26, which I believe shows great insights on hierarchy and reachability from apple. The new Search bar in iOS 26.No, I don’t know why I have a contact labeled “Finance”....
Exactly what it says on the tin. Siri App. Apple Search. visionOS with no Vision. So I can say “I told you so”. Siri App As I predicted before, Siri will smoothly settle into an interface of its own without escaping back into the...
Siri is way too happy to vanish off into the glowing bezels which it now haunts.If you want to make Siri smarter, let it remember what it says for more than a second. This isn’t about personal context or longform token memory - just let...
Jony and Sammy are cooking up something fierce. As you definitely already know, Jony Ive & his team and OpenAI are now working on… something new, and AI-y.It’s being worked on in secrecy and stealth to avoid imitation, which I...