Design Theory & History
150 videos · Design history · Design philosophy & principles · Designer profiles & interviews · Design critique & analysis
14:34Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech 2005
54:20Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle
37:31Everything is a Remix (Original Series)
1:46:51"Money doesn't interest me" - Ton Roosendaal 2017 Interview
21:35Music Software & Bad Interface Design: Avid’s Sibelius
41:39BOLTR: Juicero, Cold Press Juicer for Rich Weirdos
29:361. How Buildings Learn - Stewart Brand - 1 of 6 - “Flow”
51:07Alan Kay, 2015: Power of Simplicity
13:55Segmented Displays
8:44A4 Paper Is Too Perfect
5:11The Lost 1984 Video: young Steve Jobs introduces the Macintosh
28:46FarewellEtaoinShrdlu
1:03:36Christopher Alexander - Patterns in Architecture
1:16:21Notation Must Die: The Battle For How We Read Music
23:00Steve Jobs rare footage conducting a presentation on 1980 (Insanely Great)
1:04:04Everything is a Remix (2023 Edition)
7:26Ted Nelson's Eulogy for Douglas Engelbart
21:0810 Bullets. By Tom Sachs
![The Wrong Way to Set Speed Limits [ST06]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/bglWCuCMSWc/hq2.jpg)
11:09The Wrong Way to Set Speed Limits [ST06]
12:02Nintendo - Putting Play First
23:20Dwarf Fortress Creator Explains its Complexity & Origins | Noclip Interview
18:19Why city flags may be the worst-designed thing you've never noticed | Roman Mars
14:46Computers for Cynics 0 - The Myth of Technology
1:00Machine with Concrete - Arthur Ganson
![Smoother animation ≠ Better animation [read pinned comment]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_KRb_qV9P4g/hq2.jpg)
13:05Smoother animation ≠ Better animation [read pinned comment]
2:56Microsoft Re-Designs the iPod Packaging
33:39Music Software & Interface Design: MuseScore
1:02:15Classic Game Postmortem: Sid Meier's Civilization
18:31The LED Traffic Light and the Danger of "But Sometimes!"
1:40Steve Jobs, "Computers are like a bicycle for our minds." - Michael Lawrence Films
1:55Ira Glass on the Creative Process (www.getoutthebox.org)
1:17:21The GUI should be better. A lot better.
5:04Meet the Engineer Preserving The Last Analog Motion Graphics Machine
1:00:47'Magic: the Gathering': 20 Years, 20 Lessons Learned
14:10Meeting Mr. Kid Pix
15:15why Japan's internet is weirdly designed
9:56Was iOS 7 created in Microsoft Word?
23:41Windows 8: The Animated Evaluation
17:56Your Product Sucks — Apple Music macOS review
13:59Liber Indigo - Metaphysical Prisoners of the Desktop
1:06:59Music Software & Interface Design: Steinberg's Dorico
16:38Games, Schools, and Worlds Designed for Violence
7:311993 interview re: Paul Rand and Steve Jobs
8:21The Grille Trend that Kills 509 People per Year
7:50if Apple made window blinds...
![Maciej Ceglowski - The Website Obesity Crisis [Web Directions 2015 Keynote]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/iYpl0QVCr6U/hq2.jpg)
53:20Maciej Ceglowski - The Website Obesity Crisis [Web Directions 2015 Keynote]
5:51Susan Kare explains Macintosh UI ergonomics on the Computer Chronicles (1984)
4:52Designer's Table
32:33Rekka Bellum and Devine Lu Linvega, Hundred Rabbits - XOXO Festival (2019)
4:37How A Lawsuit Inspired Apple’s Most Iconic Sounds
3:09:58How We Fell Out Of Love With Facebook
21:48Lessons from a Can Opener
7:04Made By: Chris Coyier (CodePen)
7:30Jonathan Ive - Tribute to Steve Jobs
13:37A Step Saving Kitchen, 1949
14:29Refactoring UI: Bad About
6:31Open offices are overrated
10:36NEOM Is The Parody Of The Future
2:01:12MARK FERRARI interview (The Making of Monkey Island - Behind The Scenes)
5:38:11The Secrets of Monkey Island - An Evening With Ron Gilbert
28:00Why Clip Art Was Everywhere... Until It Wasn't
6:50The world is poorly designed. But copying nature helps.
11:13Refactoring UI: WP Pusher Checkout Page
37:01Inge Druckrey: Teaching to See
41:02The Witness - A Great Game That You Shouldn't Play
14:05TUN: Un-Ruining the MMO
12:11Why do "Corporate Art Styles" Feel Fake?
1:45:35Disney's Animatronics: A Living History
57:37BSidesLV 2013 3 2 7 Sixteen Colors Archiving the Evolution of ANSI and ASCII Art Doug Moore Bren
18:35We Are The Art | Brandon Sanderson’s Keynote Speech
23:18Everything is a Remix Part 1 (2021)
44:16Universal Mind of Bill Evans (1966 Documentary)
8:17Pixel Pioneers: A Brief History of Graphics, Part One
11:17Everything is a Remix Part 3 (Original Series, 2011)
42:53Ross's Game Dungeon: Deus Ex - Human Revolution
1:25:34Tom Mullaney: The Chinese Typewriter: A History
0:55Steve Jobs on Microsoft
2:03Jodorowsky's Dune (2014) - HD Trailer
18:53There's No Crying in Flag Design
19:55The Great 202 Jailbreak - Computerphile
8:29The Pixel Painter
43:30Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? | Ubuntu Summit 25.10
27:36Why Western Designs Fail in Developing Countries
12:24The Genius of 2x4 Framing
3:00:23Oral History of Larry Tesler, part 1 of 3
8:17The Lost Art of Paste-Up
19:53Sequelitis - Mega Man Classic vs. Mega Man X
1:47:06Myst Co-Creator Rand Miller: Extended Interview | Ars Technica
18:37The Man Who Invented More Than 800 Iconic Toys | Eddy's World | The New Yorker
6:04Stop Signs Suck and We Should Get Rid of Them
53:34Y Oslo - How to draw an orange, Mike Monteiro
28:48Dwarf Fortress: What Happens When It Becomes A Game? The Zach and Tarn Adams Interviews
17:23This city concept breaks architecture (THE LINE)
11:26The AI Purple Problem
11:34When Phones Were Fun – And Nokia Was Crazy
5:55How the inventor of Mario designs a game
14:57Design Crit: Business cards from American Psycho
9:41interview with graphic designer, Paul Rand-Part 1 of 3
8:19Miyamoto on World 1-1: How Nintendo made Mario's most iconic level
1:38Erik Spiekermann über iOS 7
17:37Stefan Sagmeister: The power of time off
45:48How Designers Destroyed the World - Mike Monteiro, at USI
1:27:58Aesthetics of Far Cry 2.
14:07The Strange Return of Art Deco in America
36:32Eastern & Western Design: How Culture Rewires The Brain
37:47Rockstar's Game Design is Outdated
1:11:28HandmadeCon 2015 - Ron Gilbert
48:02Jonathan Blow - Truth In Game Design
17:05Bad design can kill: Missile defense and user fatigue
3:58Why are we changing maps? (from The West Wing)
6:18The origin of the '80s aesthetic
9:57SX-70
47:59The Witness Documentary
5:45iPhone Resolution by Edward Tufte
4:58How coronavirus charts can mislead us
2:02If Microsoft Designed macOS
12:15How Sid Meier Almost Made Civilization a Real-Time Strategy Game | War Stories | Ars Technica
13:24Music Software & Interface Design: Propellerhead’s Reason
7:26Milton Glaser – on the fear of failure
1:07:47William Lidwell: Author of the book Universal Principles of Design
28:57How AI Stole the ✨ Sparkles ✨ Emoji
1:13:48Shigeru Miyamoto's 1999 GDC Keynote
53:51The Legacy of the NASA Worm Logo (Official NASA Broadcast)
![Development Secrets of the Original Kirby [Grab Bag]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZUY2AtBD6Sk/hq2.jpg)
17:23Development Secrets of the Original Kirby [Grab Bag]
6:03Bill Atkinson: Hypercard
16:43Refactoring UI: Resolute
51:52Notes on Icons and Design with Susan Kare
16:43John Gruber - Auteur Theory of Design - Macworld Pulse
0:09A Computer Absolutely Can Be Sexy - Jonathan Ive
7:30Jonathan Blow: How Mainstream Devs Are Getting It Wrong
42:42Mike Bostock - Design is a Search Problem
5:10The History of Typography - Animated Short
1:14:54Clippy: The Unauthorized Biography
8:28House of the Future, 1957
10:00Introduction to the Scanimate Part 1
10:51Chinese app design: weird, but it works. Here's why
10:49The Apple Podcast App is UX Garbage
16:42The first secret of great design | Tony Fadell
1:10:23Tim Cook, Sir Jony Ive KBE, and Laurene Powell Jobs | Full Interview | Code 2022
2:46:26Tony Fadell: iPhone, iPod, Nest, Steve Jobs, Design, and Engineering | Lex Fridman Podcast #294
1:2810 Bullets, #8: "ALWAYS BE KNOLLING". By Tom Sachs
14:37You're wrong about QWERTY
2:16Harold Cohen - The Age of Intelligent Machines - 1987 (Clip)
14:23Marshall Mcluhan Full lecture: The medium is the message - 1977 part 1 v 3
28:15Your Life is Not a Hero's Journey
3:06Papyrus - SNL
1:37:43DOUGLAS TRUMBULL | Master Class | Higher Learning
52:15In Search of Moebius (BBC 4 Documentary)
2:50This Is a Generic Brand Video, by Dissolve
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