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Usability is dead, users are

Anil Dash

Feb 5, 2001 • 1 min read

Usability is dead, users are too smart to need it. No, that’s not true. Well, at least on this one Jakob’s right.

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Not For Tourists: Attribution, Provenance and Harm Reduction

Anytime a big new market pops up, people rush in to stake their claims and make their fortunes. Our culture loves creation myths, especially in technology. Fables about lone geniuses are ubiquitous in the tech industry, with their fundamental falsity doing nothing to undermine their utility for most people in

Anil Dash Apr 5, 2021 • 5 min read

Design Choices of Breath of the Wild

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is one of the greatest games ever made, and one of the breakout hits of the Nintendo Switch platform, which is on its way to becoming one of the 10 most popular video game consoles of all time. But now, years after

Anil Dash Feb 25, 2021 • 3 min read

How Prince won the Super Bowl

On this day in 2007, Prince won Super Bowl XLI with a soaring halftime performance that climaxed with the skies opening up to honor his guitar solo. It is not just the best-regarded halftime show ever, but was to that point the most-viewed musical performance in American history. Prince’s

Anil Dash Feb 4, 2021 • 7 min read

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