Mark W.rites

Article Archive

Every one of my self-published articles is listed below.

2025
Being a Mastodon Moderator
Jewish American Heritage Month
Arab American Heritage Month
Best Homemade Vegan Tomato Soup
International Holocaust Remembrance Day: Reminding Us Why It’s Time to Fight
The Bell Centennial Typeface Story
Open Letter to Apple
2024
My Favorite Records of 2024
My Most Loved Posts and Articles from 2024
National Adoption Month
Why I Left Medium
Three UX Laws That Optimize Information Seeking
From a Revolutionary, a Princess is Born?
Rodney, the Drinking Fountain, and the Little White Racist: How I Learned to Fear Black People
The Battle for Interstellar Frontiers, and Why it May Not Matter
Approaching the Complexities and Nuances of Automotive UX
Holistic Bill-Pay Design for Healthcare
My To-Do List System
Easy Solutions for 5 Very Common UX Mistakes
Usability, Accessibility, and the Clickable Area of Buttons
A Story About Biases, Patriarchy, and Irony
Build a Simple Case for Accessibility with These 5 Benefits
Guide for Using Mastodon Search: It’s Easier and More Powerful Than You Might Think
My Favorite Records of 2023
2023
Hashtag Accessibility, by Everyone for Everyone
My Favorite Records of 2022
2022
Secret Solution to Improve SMS Messaging on macOS
ESPN’s Simple and Honest UX for Digital Subscriptions
2021
26 Years in the Making: the Exhumation of Cadaverous Quartet
My Easy, Yummy, Vegan Thai Fried Rice
Information Architecture and the Etymology of “Godspeed” and “Goodbye”
Automobile Makers are Trying to Kill Us with Touchscreen Dashboards
2020
To the Owners of the NWSL LA Expansion Team: Thank You
“How Are You Doing?” is a Trigger
What Neil Peart means to me…
2019
What My Father’s Unironic Rampage About The Hulk in a Toy Store Taught Me About UX Design
That Time I Unexpectedly Played Onstage with Alice in Chains in the Middle of Their Concert
2018
Teachers are for Inspiration, Not Militias
2016
American Genocide and White Privilege
Teaching Ethics to Artificial Intelligence
“This is My Favorite”
2015
Trading Tolerance for Making Sweet
2014
“Pears Don’t Wear Underwear,” Thoughts on Ferguson
2007
Web Standards: a Must for HTML Email
2004
CSS and Email, Kissing in a Tree