Director, Interfaces Institute Publisher, Naisu Press

I make complex subjects understandable.

I build and publish reference systems — data, standards and books — for domains whose rules are set by many authorities and agreed by none of them.

In operation

timesys.pro

Operational dates as infrastructure. Rules rather than lists, evaluated across 36 calendar systems, every row carrying its source and a grade for how firm that source is.

241 jurisdictions · 10,338 dated closures · reissued monthly corpus.institute

A cross-civilisational reading library arranged as a building you move through. The arrangement is the argument; search is present and deliberately demoted.

108,021 sections · 5,924 works · 12 languages athens.taipei

Cities read by what you can do in them rather than by what they score — weather, rhythm, season and the absurdities, each measured from open data.

126 city studies · 151 countries · 1,879 ranked Interfaces Institute

Where the method is developed and published in the open — interaction read at every grain, from the single tap to the system it belongs to.

The standard, and the specimens organize.ink

Planners compiled per buyer — their device, dates, jurisdiction and language. No two are the same document.

372 templates · 52 devices · order path verified · not yet selling locintel.pro

Place intelligence compiled per city, on the same corpus-to-many-deliveries model, with the same rule about naming what is not known.

In preparation

Six independent research institutes sit behind these — standards rather than products, listed at the register. Case studies and the detail are under work.

The standard everything is held to

Provenance over assertion
Every claim carries its source, and where confidence is partial it says so. Where a date is projected rather than gazetted, it is labelled projected rather than guessed quietly.
Counted, never rounded
52 tablets measured to the millimetre. 653 subdivisions. 10,338 dated closures. A rounded number quietly withdraws the claim it appears to make.
State the limit
The boundary of what is known goes where a competitor would put a benefit. A system that will not publish its own coverage is asking to be trusted rather than checked.
No verdicts
Publish the dimensions; the reader decides which matter. Every whole system buys something and pays for it — naming the payment is the analysis. Praising the result is not.

Published

Naisu Press publishes the arguments underneath the work — stated method, immutable editions, provenance in the colophon.

Compression vs Clarity Hong Kong compresses. Taiwan clarifies. What happens when either crosses a border.
Web Archetypes The recurring structures every interface is assembled from, and what each assumes about its reader.
Mobile Archetypes The same taxonomy where attention is partial and the stakes are immediate.

The books, and what is forthcoming →

Twenty years across Europe and Asia. Seven as managing director of a Hong Kong consultancy, for clients in fintech, banking, logistics and construction technology. Doctorate from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Currently advising senior leadership on digital transformation across platforms serving 35,000 people. The longer version →

A small number of engagements a year, when the problem is interesting — terms. Otherwise mike@mikko.gr.