Tag / design
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Can Experiences Be Designed: A Response
I just finished reading this revealing post by Oliver Reichenstein over at iA (which I think is amazing) and can’t help but react to it. The gist is this: “UX” has become…
September 21, 2010 -
Flash and the AppStore
I’m really getting the feeling that most people are missing the bigger unspoken point about Apple’s position on Flash: Apple does not want a revenue threat against their AppStore. Anyone who knows…
July 7, 2010 -
Facebook’s New Layout Vote
38,300 votes approve 612,128 votes do not Only 6% of the voters approve of the redesign. Damn that’s rough. Hate to be the UI designer who worked on that one. Didn’t they…
March 19, 2009 -
Less Transparent Changes
Despite Steve Jobs’ sell job at Macworld on Leopard’s “cool” transparent menu bar, the people’s voices have been heard. Today’s update to OS X includes the following two changes: Desktop Addresses legibility…
February 11, 2008 -
Pixelmator First Impressions
I don’t have the time to write a full review of this new app but I thought I’d share my initial impressions. I didn’t reposition the windows in this post. I just…
October 5, 2007 -
Latin to Clipboard
I was just sitting here looking for some Latin to use in a design and had an idea. There’s no need for me to visit some website or locate a stray file…
July 11, 2007 -
Delicious Teaser
Apple’s announcement of the WWDC Design Awards includes some more info on Delicious LIbrary 2. Delicious Monster walked away with the “Best Mac OS X Leopard Application” and Apple posted this screenshot…
June 13, 2007 -
Apple’s TODO List
I regularly poke around inside the contents of applications just to see what’s there resource-wise in case there’s a specific pre-made icon that I could use in a design somewhere to speed…
July 1, 2006 -
Branding and UI Design
I have always been a fan of the Mac. The notion that a machine is there to help me be ultra creative is the kind of thing I will always gravitate toward.…
March 7, 2006 -
Harming Our Business?
“To date, Apple has not agreed to design its popular iPod line of portable digital audio players to function with our music services and users of our music services must rely on…
August 12, 2005