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Keren R. Bell
Hi! My name is Keren R. Bell (sounds like Kirby when abbreviated!) and I think a lot about design. I care a lot about User Experience, Apple, Figma, Nintendo, Arc browser, comically bad translations, serif titles with sans serif body texts, and ease-out animations.
Latest Posts
This is a call to join the topic-of-the-month for the Swift Blog Carnival! This month, we focus on the already-on-your-mind discussion about the limits you ran into with SwiftUI. The topic really started circulating earlier this month...
For the past few weeks since “releasing” my first app to the public on GitHub1, I kept iterating and improving the app. Here’s a snapshot of it today: Meshmaker today, May 2026. I’ve added several features, and however silly it might...
There’s a beauty in how the Mac commits to “the desktop and files” metaphor. I think it’s admirable how ever since the earliest days of the Human Interface Guidelines, direct manipulation has been a core benefit of the operating systems:...
I have “released” my first Mac application, Meshmaker, on GitHub as a public repository, so anyone can download the project and run/install it using Xcode. I’m proud of this guy. Now, this isn’t really “A release”. The project isn’t...
I’ve been putting together a small app, and trying to make it very very good. I’m coding the whole thing1 myself because I enjoy the challenges that come with logic coding, and find writing SwiftUI code pretty fun and fast. It’s a...
Brandon McMullen, on where the MacBook Neo leaves the iPad: “Will a MacBook Neo be better for an artist who draws for a living? How about a small child? What about people on construction sites? How about for your tech illiterate grandma?...
I’m trying out a ton of design and art software at once (which I might write a blogpost about), and today I got into Pixelmator Pro, and when figuring out the Effects panel, I was overjoyed at this design detail: You could hang your...
Today, Apple announced “the new iPhone 17e”. I personally have an iPhone 16e, so naturally, I have no reason to upgrade. This was expected, as I am not the audience. Apple tells you as much themselves, as the product page offers...
There is a horrible disease in web design I see everywhere. On one end, it has infected Apple, Microsoft, Google and more, and on the other end of the spectrum, small, niche, hand-coded passionate bloggers and coders. It is the hijacking...
I don’t have anything to say about the Apple Creator Studio announcement that wasn't already said better, but I gotta say, there’s something I find deeply compelling about pre-release marketing material, especially idiosyncrasies and...
Matt Birchler, on vibe coding small tools: And you know what? It worked. The UI wasn't perfect, but it was damn close. And I already had a product that achieved the goal I set out to achieve. All in all, I'd say it was about 10 minutes...
Forgive my tinfoil hat, but…As Apple leans more and more into reflective surfaces, 3D illusions and bouncy visuals, perfectly concentric menus and device bezels and a haptic, tactile sensory experience, Google and Android have refined...
This is exciting.We’ve seen AI make and manipulate text, and do it pretty well.We’ve seen AI make and manipulate images, and do it… uh… At scale.But Google keeps trying to make this new thing. This more evolved thing. The difference...
The only reason me and my partner considered a PC was playing games. If the Steam Machine can also be easily used to stream/record gameplay, and maybe even run Discord too, there’s no longer a reason for me to see Windows again in the...
Murmurings of a “capacitive button only” iPhone have been floating about for a while. This rings alarm bells for some, excites others, and I wanted to formulate my thoughts on the idea. The downside comes from concerns of reliability and...