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Adam Fisher-Cox @adamfishercox.com · 10/09/2026

Like, is this convincing anyone of their ergonomics?

iPhone Duo promo photos showing hands stretched to hold the phone, fingertips barely grasping the far edge.

Adam Fisher-Cox @adamfishercox.com · 29/07/2026

Subway announcement pollution isn't just noise pollution. Using "alert" space for generic and benign messages like this just means riders will stop paying attention to alerts.

A subway arrival times screen with half the screen covered by a generic announcement about wet platforms

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Adam Fisher-Cox @adamfishercox.com · 11/07/2026

Famously, people decide whether or not they want to go somewhere based on local hotel construction policy, and not building them stops any desire to visit.

You can't prevent leisure tourists from coming, can you?
That's the effect of setting the limits. The demand can't grow if there's no accommodations for them. Already this summer we're seeing that there are people who can't come because they can't find a place to stay. We're not going to respond to growing demand.

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Adam Fisher-Cox @adamfishercox.com · 24/06/2026

Seems like Queens is on a path to make an anti-vaxxer (Milner) judge. Nothing infuriates me more than the completely information-free judge races in NYC. At least this one wasn't a pick two with two options.

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Adam Fisher-Cox @adamfishercox.com · 16/03/2026

The last few really hurt my score

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Adam Fisher-Cox @adamfishercox.com · 25/02/2026

How would this forecast be possible

A sliver of the weekly forecast from Apple Weather says “Friday, 35% chance of snow, low 37, high 56”

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Adam Fisher-Cox @adamfishercox.com · 22/02/2026

Amazing illustration of why you shouldn't let form beat out function. Why is the easiest distinction to make on this map between 3 and 4 inches, with 6 to 12 nearly indistinguishable?

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Adam Fisher-Cox @adamfishercox.com · 06/02/2026

The author detaching the post rather than removing it makes it even clearer they are knowingly spreading bad info: bsky.app/profile/ali-...

Post from ali alkhatib: "waymo executives admit what we all knew to begin with, that their self
driving Al is really just remote operators in the philippines."

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Adam Fisher-Cox @adamfishercox.com · 01/02/2026

Would love to see the iterations leading to this button copy in the Venmo app

A credit card floating on a multicolor background. The title says “Cards”, a button to the right says “Add your teen”

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Adam Fisher-Cox @adamfishercox.com · 06/01/2026

I feel like blasting through that wall and refreshing some paint could get a pretty sensible traffic flow going. A flex barrier between the bike and ped lanes here at the entrance would help keep conflict areas minimal.

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Adam Fisher-Cox @adamfishercox.com · 30/12/2025

Why are these still up everywhere without a date on them?

An MTA paper service change poster in a subway station. It says “Winter Weather Alert” at the top, then “Evening, beginning 8:45 PM W will end early. Please take R”

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Adam Fisher-Cox @adamfishercox.com · 04/12/2025

Yeah but if you're going to align these, you can't just ignore the circles, you have to baseline align the whole bullet.

A rough mockup showing a correct alignment of the bullets with the word, red lines indicating the baseline and cap-height of the text

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Adam Fisher-Cox @adamfishercox.com · 04/12/2025

I can't tell what it's aligned with, if anything. I'd do something like this (roughly)

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Adam Fisher-Cox @adamfishercox.com · 25/09/2025

This frame, mid-way thru scrolling, shows the portrait Black Mirror poster sliding behind the horizontal poster. I guess I'm supposed to experience this as the small one growing bigger, but without actually transforming a single object, it feels like I'm controlling two separate interactions.

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Adam Fisher-Cox @adamfishercox.com · 09/09/2025

Credit where it's due, someone had to be pretty happy with themselves on this one.

Screenshot from Apple's iPhone 17 Pro website with the headline "Unibody enclosure. Makes a strong case for itself."

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Adam Fisher-Cox @adamfishercox.com · 09/09/2025

New contender for worst Apple copywriting, I'm almost impressed by this one. Took me a dozen reads to figure out what the pun or clever wordplay was at all. Why not "It's a new cam era?" Still stupid, at least clear how I'm supposed to read it.

Screenshot from Apple's iPhone Air website showing the copy "New front. New rear. New cam-era."

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Adam Fisher-Cox @adamfishercox.com · 29/08/2025

Port Authority incompetence strikes again. The line to tap through the AirTrain turnstiles (a phrase that shouldn’t exist) is a hundred people long. Begging people to drive

A crowd of people waiting to tap through a turnstile for the JFK AirTrain

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Adam Fisher-Cox @adamfishercox.com · 22/08/2025

They piloted this at Jay St! Never went anywhere though.

A photo of the Subway station floor. Colored stripes crisscross the floor labeled with directional arrows pointing to the R train and ACF train platforms.

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Adam Fisher-Cox @adamfishercox.com · 09/08/2025

“You look exhausted” - this man

Andrew Cuomo looking like a catchers mitt with a cold that’s been dogging him for weeks

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Adam Fisher-Cox @adamfishercox.com · 05/08/2025

Why does DOT use sidewalk materials and tactile pavers on bike ramps? This seems to be indicating to vision-impaired people that they're stepping into a crosswalk, not a bike lane. Isn't the appropriate design tactile pavers to delineate the bike area of the sidewalk from the walking area?

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Adam Fisher-Cox @adamfishercox.com · 21/07/2025

Siri, offering me some information on a photo of Brooklyn, in my camera roll, that it knows is in NYC because of the GPS info embedded in the file, which its already displaying in the exact same panel: “That’s Kansas City.”

A screenshot of the photos app on iOS showing a photo of Brooklyn with”Siri knowledge” results about Kansas City.

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Adam Fisher-Cox @adamfishercox.com · 19/07/2025

Feels like the screens in the new subway cars forgot that some of the route colors are too light for white text. First stop is totally illegible!

A screen in a subway car showing the route of the train. The first stop is highlighted with a light green background but has white text that is barely readable against the green background.

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Adam Fisher-Cox @adamfishercox.com · 03/07/2025

A) Population immediately started growing again after Covid B) Even if it hadn’t, a couple years decline wouldn’t reverse a shortage built up from decades of underbuilding.

A graph showing annual percent change in population of NYC. Every year except 2019 and 2020 shows increasing growth.

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Adam Fisher-Cox @adamfishercox.com · 26/06/2025

NYT doing cop-speak about the thing they're doing themselves by putting this on the top of their homepage

An article on the top of the NY Times homepage with the headline "Rama Duwaji, Mamdani's Wife, Is Thrust Into the Spotlight"

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Adam Fisher-Cox @adamfishercox.com · 09/04/2025

This image is included as a positive example of the changes he wanted to make which is... not how I would personally sell the clarity of my new map!

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Adam Fisher-Cox @adamfishercox.com · 02/03/2025

Checking off a new metro system

A light rail NFTA Metro train enters an underground subway station

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Adam Fisher-Cox @adamfishercox.com · 08/12/2024

A) No it didn’t. B) All evidence suggests no, it isn’t.

NY times headline reading: “An N.Y.P.D. Manhunt Caught a Subway Shooter. This Time, It's Different.”

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Adam Fisher-Cox @adamfishercox.com · 05/12/2024

Love to live in the bright red blob of "we don't build new housing", New Yawk, New Yawk. Bronx, Manhattan, and Queens all at 69 and 70 years on average. Brooklyn doesn't have data?

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Adam Fisher-Cox @adamfishercox.com · 27/11/2024

Drives me crazy all the little ways this city is car-brained, such as it’s seeming inability to figure out how to keep cars out of a space without walling it off to everyone. All this needs is to be one inch narrower than a car. Instead a huge concrete barrier forces everyone to a choke point.

A painted sidewalk extension on a New York City street is protected from car traffic by concrete barriers, but at the end of the lane another barrier closes off the painted area forcing all passengers onto the small sidewalk

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Adam Fisher-Cox @adamfishercox.com · 17/09/2024

Does everyone get the certified Bluesky elder badge or am I actually special?

Celebrating 10M users
#158,201
Adam Fisher-Cox
@adamfishercox.com
Joined Jun 25, 2023

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Adam Fisher-Cox @adamfishercox.com · 14/09/2024

Discovered the bizarro NYC world of Jamaica Estates today.

A large path leading toward a mansion flanked by two statues of griffins with shields.

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Adam Fisher-Cox @adamfishercox.com · 29/08/2024

Eagle team delaying service as only they know how.

A long line of bus riders waits outside the bus as fare enforcement holds up the line waiting for everyone to pay.

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Adam Fisher-Cox @adamfishercox.com · 22/08/2024

What the hell do this headline and dek mean? Why are new organizations writing like this?

What Drives Kamala Harris: The Art of the Possible
As she prepares to formally accept the Democratic nomination, what the vice president may be offering the nation is a future defined by the fine print.

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Adam Fisher-Cox @adamfishercox.com · 21/07/2024

Hundreds of bus riders stuck in traffic so that a few dozen people can park their cars on Woodhaven Blvd. Bus lanes should always be 24/7, especially on a route that has high weekend ridership.

A photo from inside a bus, through the windshield, showing a bus lane full of parked cars and lanes of stopped traffic that the bus is stuck in

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Adam Fisher-Cox @adamfishercox.com · 21/07/2024

This strikes me as so comically out of touch with how voters perceive (or are even aware of) what the primary is and how it works that I’m not inclined to trust this person’s judgement on other questions either. Absolutely nobody thinks of the primary as “voting for delegates.”

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Adam Fisher-Cox @adamfishercox.com · 13/07/2024

Needs a permanent place where I can easily switch it on and off but… extremely good frivolous purchase.

Image of the OnlyNY x MTA table lamp sitting on a shelf with other decor. It looks like the 1970s-era entrance lamps outside subways stations, a backlit white cube with a blue M sitting on top of a backlist green cube.

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Adam Fisher-Cox @adamfishercox.com · 08/07/2024

Why are we deliberately writing news headlines to be uninformative?

Headline saying:

MONDAY, JULY 8, 2024
This country just introduced a six-day workweek
Plus, Biden faces new calls from Democrats to drop out, and how Idaho's abortion ban is driving doctors away.

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Adam Fisher-Cox @adamfishercox.com · 10/05/2024

Am I completely insane or wasn’t a core part of the initial pitch for Siri that it *could* follow conversation like this!?

Introduced in 2011 as the original virtual assistant in every iPhone, Siri had been limited for years to individual requests and had never been able to follow a conversation. It often misunderstood questions. ChatGPT, on the other hand, knew that if someone asked for the weather in San Francisco and then said,
"What about New York?" that user wanted another forecast.

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Adam Fisher-Cox @adamfishercox.com · 01/05/2024

Notable difference between the preview headline for this story on Apple News, and the actual headline on the story once you tap into it, which removes information to make the agency less clear. Does Apple News curation include copy editing headlines?

Apple News thumbnail and headline for a Guardian story reading “Violence erupts at UCLA as counter-protesters attack pro-Palestinian camp”

The headline from the full article page reading “Violence erupts at UCLA campus between rival Gaza protest groups”

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