Anita Krishnamurthy (she/her)

@anita_k

Health journalist · ex-NYT

Health journalist. I read the studies so you don't have to, then translate them into things you can actually do. Skeptic of wellness, fan of evidence.

Yuki Tanaka @yuki_t ·

Why Dark Mode Is Harder Than It Looks

The most common mistake in implementing dark mode is treating it as a simple inversion. Take the light theme, swap white for black, swap black for off-white, you are done. The result is a high-contrast nightmare that is…

Liam O'Brien @liam_o ·

The Album That Defined My Year

I listen to several hundred new albums every year for work. I write about maybe forty of them. The one I keep going back to in private is rarely the one I write about most enthusiastically in public.This year, the priva…

Yuki Tanaka @yuki_t ·

The Microcopy I Obsess Over

Every product I have audited has the same set of overlooked microcopy problems. Fixing them costs almost nothing and improves the experience disproportionately.1. Empty states"You have no items" is a wasted opportunity.…

Vikram Iyer @vikram_i ·

The Death of Keyword Research as We Knew It

The SEO playbook for the last decade was: find a keyword with high volume and low difficulty, write a piece targeting it, repeat. This worked. It is no longer the most efficient way to grow.The shift, which has been gra…