Weir Design Studio

05/27/2026

Think I'm gonna need a bigger box. 90's co-branded TV commercials aside, calling a resized search box a 25-year first feels like press release language and a good reporter would push back. It also buries the most interesting detail. When AI agents automate search results without crediting the referenced sites, like Zillow, real implications emerge for publishers and privacy. That deserves precedence. We get no outside voices, no skepticism, no sarcasm. It reads more like a product announcement than journalism.

Using a new Gemini A.I. model, the tech giant is overhauling its search box dimensions to answer longer queries, adding a video-generation tool and simplifying online shopping.

05/20/2026

A game has bad use experience when figuring out the trick makes it unplayable. Searchit has an intuitive UI and wonderful graphics. Players have to find hidden objects, just like Highlights magazine. They are being more Goofus rather than Gallant, though. Let's say you can't find an object. That's fair. You close the app, go back in the next day, and the object has magically appeared. The game has now become unplayable. Bad UX, no donut

12/17/2025

Good Design should be understood by everyone. I watched this so you don't have to. It is pretty short, though, so just go and watch it. The first phonetic alphabet, one that relied on how words sounded, was created by regular people, trying to communicate. It was simpler than hieroglyphics. You did not need to know what each symbol meant. You did not need to be one of the ruling elite. You just could sound out the pictures. It's democratic and very cool.

It became the basis for most written languages, beginning 4,000 years ago in the Sinai desert.