Design history: logos, devices and interfaces
The design history of the things on your screen and in your pocket: how famous logos, typefaces, the iPhone, iOS and Windows changed decade by decade, who made each decision and what it teaches anyone designing a product today.
Famous fonts history: the stories behind 15 typefaces, from Gutenberg to Helvetica to Comic Sans
The history of 15 famous fonts, from Gutenberg's blackletter to Times New Roman, Helvetica, Comic Sans and the ₹ sign, and what reading research says.
iOS design history: from leather and linen to flat design to Liquid Glass
iOS design history in three eras: skeuomorphism (2007), flat iOS 7 (2013) and Liquid Glass (2025). Who decided each change, why, and what the research says.
iPhone evolution: every iPhone from 2007 to 2026, and the design decisions that shaped it
iPhone evolution from the 3.5-inch original (2007) to the foldable iPhone Duo (2026): every model, the design change it made and why Apple made it.
Logo evolution: how 20 famous logos changed, and why almost all of them got simpler
Logo evolution of 20 brands from Coca-Cola (1886) to Air India (2023): who designed each, what changed, and the memory science behind simpler logos.
Old website designs: what Google, Amazon, Yahoo, YouTube and Facebook looked like at launch
See old website designs from the first web page (1991) to Google, Amazon, YouTube and Flipkart at launch, with Wayback Machine links and what each one teaches.
Windows evolution: how every version from Windows 1.0 to Windows 11 was designed, and what testing changed
Windows evolution from tiled Windows 1.0 (1985) to Windows 11: the Start button, XP's Bliss, Windows 8's missing Start and the tests behind each change.