What if Apple never changed? What if Jobs and company decided that they’d gotten it right—really, really right—with the classic Mac OS? What if every product thereafter would be iterative of its graphic design, with every title bar still rendered in Chicago bitmap font? iOS 86, by designer Anton Repponen, is a conceptual mashup of iOS and the Mac OS of yore. And against the odds of time and technology, the old interface still looks stunning on one of the world’s most advanced smartphones.
“To be honest I don’t really know [why it looks so good],” Repponen tells Co.Design. “Maybe it is because it just looks so clean and simple.”
John Gruber: The Gap Theory of UI Design
John Gruber on UI design (Webstock 2011, Wellington, New Zealand).
Duration: 47 minutes
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Lessons in innovation that Vodafone learns from its work in sub-Saharan Africa will be applied to its projects around the world. For Vodafone, sub-Saharan Africa is proving to… |
Is this one: http://www.flickr.com/photos/friends/
(I am a designer at Flickr. This post is largely taken from a proposed redesign I sent out last year.)
Virtually every time someone asks if I’ve seen a new photo on Flickr, I first cringe a bit, then reluctantly say no—it’s always no,…
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Yesterday Brussels saw the launch of the English version of the Service Design Toolkit, which Design Flanders developed together with Belgian consultancies Yellow Window… |
I have to admit, I’m not much of a baseline grid user myself. But Jesse Bennett-Chamberlain pointed me to this yesterday, I threw it in a PSD I’m working on, and things were fairly close to baseline — font alignment, visual elements, navigation lists, etc. I think that’s due to the 6px spacing of the baseline and the flexibility such a small increment provides.
I’m convinced to give this a try in my next design. Download the grid here.
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“Companies should lead their users, not the other way around.”
So say Jens Skibsted and Rasmus Hansen in their recent post, User-Led Innovation Can’t Create Breakthroughs, on… |
Typographical web font obsessiveness from Mark Pilgrim, inspired by Dan Cederholm’s 2008 “Use the Best Ampersand Available”.
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Videos are now available for all seven Interaction11 keynote presentations. Interaction is a yearly conference organised by the Interaction Design Association (IxDA). The… |
Consider this scenario: You just landed at an airport and now you have to walk to the baggage claim to pick up your luggage. It takes you 12 minutes to walk there. When you…
