Design lessons from guitar pedals

What we can learn from technology that’s designed to be stepped on

Clive Thompson
UX Collective
Published in
7 min readJul 1, 2022

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Photo of six pedals on a pedalboard
My most recent pedalboard

Last weekend I played my first gig with my new band, Lipstick Driver. It’s a three-piece power-trio, in which I play electric guitar, so I’d spent the last month assembling a new pedalboard.

That’s the board, above! Over the last few weeks, I’ve spent hours and hours…

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I write 2X a week on tech, science, culture — and how those collide. Writer at NYT mag/Wired; author, “Coders”. @clive@saturation.social clive@clivethompson.net