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# Podcast #194: Did the iPhone Kill Phone Design?
- URL: https://birchtree.me/blog/podcast-194-did-the-iphone-kill-phone-design/
- Published: 2019-08-12T13:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2019-08-12T13:00:00.000Z
- Author: Matt Birchler
- Tags: podcast, #Import 2023-06-01 22:41, #Import 2025-03-29 19:29

Turn on voice boost in your podcast app for this episode. I apparently drifted away from the mic around the middle of the episode and I couldn’t get the audio to be totally level throughout…sorry :(

The iPhone undeniably shifted our thinking as a society about what a phone is, but did it “kill design” while it was at it? I argue it didn’t kill design, but had a design that was so far ahead of what everyone else was doing that it made little sense to keep pursuing those older designs.

This episode was inspired by and includes a clip from [this video from Austin Evans](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1QC8NNODsw&ref=birchtree.me).