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Detailed App Icons
A great post showing little detail touches in some app icons. Sure, they’re tiny— but that just makes the clever texture and details more important. After all, how many designs do people keep just 2″...
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The 2012 MacBook Pro
2012 will bring a new MacBook Pro. Thing is, it might be already done— Jonathan Ive’s team probably already knows what it looks like. But let’s fire up the rumor mill for our own education and ask: how...
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Don’t Send Love Letters in Helvetica
James Higgs has an interesting point about Apple’s sleek industrial design at odds with their software UIs. But I think he makes it in a poor way, and I’m not convinced he’s right that software should...
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Movie Poster Similarities
A LiveJournal collection of similar movie posters is pretty hilarious actually, this compilation work is from Christophe Courtois— check out the originals on his site. Some of those are here to stay,...
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Visualizing Size: Circles Aren’t Great
From a chart today in the New York Times showing market cap value of the largest companies in the world. The trouble with circles for this data is that circles don’t look like they’re really twice the...
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Facebook’s New Login Page
Cleaner, with a much more obvious value proposition. Reminds me of an older era Google homepage in design ideas. No dynamic resizing, no tricky Javascript… a very “Just the facts, ma’am,” kind of...
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Designers Must Choose
Douglas Engelbart For designers, “naïve” and “sophisticated” always oppose each other. Naïve design requires “eschewing sophisticated techniques”. Design forces choices: red or blue, many buttons or...
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Both New and Familiar
American design in the 60s transformed traditional objects. Towers historically represented power, but the 1961 Space Needle towered gracefully and ferried anyone to the top. Eero Saarinen’s Dulles...
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Dictionary of Numbers is a Chrome extension that inspects text you read on the web, automatically adding quick notes next to numbers, contextualizing them. For instance, if you’re reading Jean-Louis...
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