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10 Year Challenge: how popular websites have changed

The iconic watches that inspired Apple Watch faces

The design of Apple's credit card

The secret formula for Apple's rounded corners

The art of the desk setup

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Why are tech companies making custom typefaces?

Rediscovering Apple's 1987 identity guidelines

The new Mac Pro is a design remix

Leica T: eight years later

Two perspectives on the designer who Steve Jobs could not hire

The history behind the World Time face for Apple Watch

Warm

The untold history of macOS System Preferences

Wallpapers inspired by iMac history

Japanese symbols that speak without words

When the cheap one is the cool one

Leica Q3 concept

Design Ah! (デザインあ) · learning the fun of design

The 16-year-old Leica Digilux 2 is still a great camera

Dieter Rams designed one of Gillette's most successful razors

Daylight at the end of the tunnel

Rams: a documentary portrait of a design legend

One month of Zwift on a cheap stationary bike

Leica’s engraved fonts

How Japan's railways stayed one while splitting apart

Elements of aircraft safety card design

The evolution of the desk setup

The deep work guide to Slack

Mild

The best city travel guides

The creative power of constraints

A Dieter Rams-designed, Jony Ive-loved citrus juicer

The tale of two Shanghais

INFOBAR · Japan's iconic mobile phone

When Leica met Apple

Four books about Apple design

Make Something Wonderful

The clever new design technique in the iPhone 11 pro

A historical view on the Metropolitan Apple Watch face

Two months with the Leica Q

Three books about Muji

Mirage at Apple Park

Why the Ferrari Luce looks like that

A skeptic's review of Apple Watch

My DIY modular charging station

A desk setup for two

How I built a modular bookcase

How the Xbox got its good looks

Learning design from musicians

How to use Automator to close all apps in one click

Meishi: a tiny productivity system

My transformative first trip to Japan · Part 1

Your native language affects how you see this image

Teenage Engineering designed a museum exhibit

Does gear matter?

Three books about Sony design

Shanghai's automotive metamorphosis

Shot on Leica Q: Portland

The Spanish designer in Dieter Rams's shadow

The Three A's method for learning from other creators

Introducing Dieter Rams Wallpapers

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Introducing arun.is 2.0

Apple Watch Ultra succeeds where Watch Edition failed

Aesthetics over upgrades

Icon designer Louie Mantia's take on traditional Japanese playing cards

Louis Vuitton City Guides

40 years of the Mac at the Computer History Museum

Choosing a static site generator for a personal site

Why we crave healthier computing

Three books about Leica

Tools for professionals, tools for amateurs

The Huntington Botanical Gardens

Is the Pentax K-01 designed by Marc Newson any good?

Exploring Hong Kong

Go-to Mac apps and utilities

Fort Worth’s world-renowned art and architecture

Mode Designs SixtyFive · a celebration of materials

On running: principles and gear

Secure file cabinet on my Mac

iPod speakers make the best smart speakers

When an architect designs a train

Inside arun.is · Apple Watch animations

Sigma BF: less camera, more vision

Where to build and host your personal website

Inside arun.is · Design

The hidden bond between the Porsche 911 and Leica M

The sensory experience of making coffee

What does “Shot on iPhone” mean anymore?

A generative film about Brian Eno

Visiting two art gems outside New York City

Inside arun.is · camera illustrations

My year-long sabbatical

A visit to the Eames institute

Inside arun.is · Table of contents

My transformative first trip to Japan · Part 4

How I sort through a deluge of subscriptions

Shift Happens preview

My transformative first trip to Japan · Part 2

City travel guides: honorable mentions

Inside arun.is · Technology

The Google visitor experience

Are you designing a map or a path?

Inside arun.is · Photo storage

A weekend at the foot of the Golden Gate Bridge with the X100V

Cold

Visiting the Bay Area's only Case Study House

Shot on Leica Q · San Francisco and Sausalito

A weekend in LA

The impressive variety of COVID-19 face shield designs

Family adventures in Tokyo

See the best of Japan without leaving your home

Quick visit to the Design Museum

Japan · culture and life

The year in review: 2025

Journey through India

Introducing arun.is 3.0

The inescapable gravity of the smartphone

Drive My Car is a beautiful, picturesque film

Mexico City's embrace of culture

Charming Guanajuato, Mexico

Japan · museum guide

Art & architecture in Chicago

Japan · fertility festival

Photowalk through Shanghai

Inside arun.is · Writing

Planet of Lana: where gameplay meets cinematic brilliance

Hello, Liquid Glass

Exploring China's Fujian Province

Three pillars of my blogging philosophy

ChatGPT cleaned up my podcast subscription mess

The arun.is newsletter

NorCal 2023 Mechanical Keyboard Meetup

Exploring Shanghai

A weekend on San Francisco's Embarcadero

Staying at the TWA Flight Center

Introducing Daily Designer

First family trip to Los Angeles

Munich · Museums

Designing wearable tech history

Assemble with Care and the joy of fixing things

A love letter to the Leica CL

Hidden Taiwan: A weekend in Taoyuan & Yingge

Suzhou twenty years later

Shanghai Film Park

Japan · cityscapes and cars

2022 Holiday giveaway

A week in Palm Springs

Being in Taipei as the pandemic hit

A week in Oaxaca

Ai-enhanced writing process

Eight lessons from founding to Series C

Taipei through the layers of time

How Jane Ko wrote and published her own guide to Austin

Milwaukee's many faces

Palma de Mallorca

Art and culture in Singapore

Munich · Streets, U-Bahn, Olympiapark

Japan's invisible electric wall

Spring Falls: A peaceful puzzle game about water and erosion

Kanazawa I · On the way

Five years of the arun.is newsletter

Struggling to contribute to BLM

My transformative first trip to Japan · Part 3

Naoto Fukasawa’s without thought catalogs