studio.zeldman

09/01/2026

Why first impressions are often correct. Today’s jerk is tomorrow’s techno-fascist....

https://zeldman.com/2026/09/01/tales-o-tech-suffering-fools/

Why first impressions are often correct. Today’s jerk is tomorrow’s techno-fascist.

08/29/2026

Mix

The start of a beautiful weekend....

The start of a beautiful weekend.

08/19/2026

The Most Important Industrial Designer of All Time

One Frenchman can’t be wrong. Push to the edge of what people will accept. Stop there. Raymond Loewy called it MAYA, and used it to design the modern world. The most important industrial designer you've never heard of....

08/18/2026

Ebb, Meet Flow: Intrinsic Design in a Nutshell

The future of web design is nearly 30 years old, and still too little understood.

https://zeldman.com/2026/08/18/ebb-meet-flow-intrinsic-design-in-a-nutshell/

08/17/2026

For students who make websites

Meet WordPress.com Education, a new, free product for teachers and students....

https://zeldman.com/2026/08/17/for-students-who-make-websites/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Meet WordPress.com Education, a new, free product for teachers and students.

08/03/2026

Old Gold: Design faster experiences to help visitors get things done, and slower experiences to improve reading comprehension.

07/29/2026

Your writing needs a permanent home—a domain that you own and control. Every few years, the internet convinces writers that a new digital paradise has arrived....

https://zeldman.com/2026/07/29/a-permanent-home/

Every few years, the internet convinces writers that a new digital paradise has arrived. First, it was social media like Facebook. Then blogging networks like Tumblr. Then it was Medium. More recently, it’s been Substack.

07/24/2026

The instant a business guy uses a sports metaphor to make his most important strategic point, I am lost....

https://zeldman.com/2026/07/24/you-lost-me-at-infielder/

The instant a business guy uses a sports metaphor to make his most important strategic point, I am lost. If you want me to understand your business idea, try wrapping it in Wendy Carlos’s secrets of synthesis or quotations by Orson Welles or the punchline to an old joke.

07/21/2026

The name of this LP is “Side One.”

On Sunday, I published Side One of my album on Bandcamp. The name of the album is also “Side One.” It is instrumental music with roots in Soundtrack, hip-hop, funk, jazz, 19th Century Romantic classical, ambient, electronic, and art rock....

On Sunday, I published Side One of my album on Bandcamp. The name of the album is also “Side One.” It is instrumental music with roots in Soundtrack, hip-hop, funk, jazz, 19th Century Romantic classical, ambient, electronic, and art rock. You might wonder if those divergent genres belong togethe...

07/11/2026

Stalin decided what was good science. Millions starved.

Mendelian genetics was branded a “whore of capitalism,” and geneticists were forced to renounce their views or lose their jobs....

https://zeldman.com/2026/07/11/stalin-decided-what-was-good-science-millions-starved/

What happens when dictators choose political expediency over science?