Telos by Shrikant Kumar
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The surfaces where people and machines meet, and the assumptions built into them.

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A grid of app tiles enclosed by a violet wall in a dark field, with a single narrow amber gate on the left side through which dozens of thin amber paths converge from scattered points outside.
Updated 22 Oct 2026

1912 → 2026

App Stores and Platforms

The Walled Garden

33 min read Interface Design Ethics
A lit manuscript page with rows of text bars, one word struck through in red and a replacement underlined in violet, a blinking amber cursor, a margin comment, and five earlier drafts fanned out in shadow behind it.
Updated 22 Oct 2026

1874 → 2025

Word Processors

Ink That Never Dries

28 min read Writing Productivity Tools
A honeycomb of faint hexagonal cells covering the dark field, with concentric amber rings radiating from a glowing smartphone at the centre.
Updated 22 Oct 2026

1946 → 2025

Mobile Phones

The Number That Became a Person

25 min read Hardware Interface Design
On the left, a web of small circular profile icons is joined by thin golden lines like a network of friends. Curving threads pull out of the web toward a tall phone-shaped column on the right, filled with stacked content cards, from which a cloud of pink hearts rises.
Updated 22 Oct 2026

1997 → 2026

Social Media

Everyone You Know, and Everyone You Don’t

51 min read Communication Ethics

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