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Nice article on Design Shack why Pinterest is so great. From an UX view. 
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Nice article on Design Shack why Pinterest is so great. From an UX view. 

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    • #pinterest
  • 2 weeks ago
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Brit - The Areaware Alarm Dock Turns Your iPhone Into an Old School Flip Clock
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Brit - The Areaware Alarm Dock Turns Your iPhone Into an Old School Flip Clock

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Just got access to the New Vimeo. Looks very nice and simple. Love it when a website has such a great overhaul. Are you watching Flickr??
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Just got access to the New Vimeo. Looks very nice and simple. Love it when a website has such a great overhaul. Are you watching Flickr??

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  • 3 weeks ago
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Typographic shelves. Create them yourself on Quattria. 
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Typographic shelves. Create them yourself on Quattria. 

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(via Tactile Typography by Dominique Falla | Design.org)
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(via Tactile Typography by Dominique Falla | Design.org)

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The worst are sites that detect the iPad and serve phone-optimized web pages. The iPad display is small by PC standards, yes, but Mobile Safari’s scaling and zooming are so seamless that almost all desktop web layouts work remarkably well — and certainly better than phone layouts meant to look best on 3.5-inch displays… Worse than the worst, of course, are sites like the NY Post, that refuse to work on the iPad period, telling you that you need to download their app from the App Store. The iPad is a wonderful web browsing device. To ignore that, or treat it as a crippled browser, is folly.
John Gruber, Daring Fireball

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  • 3 months ago > wtf-mobile-web
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“In 1968 — three years before the invention of the microprocessor — Alan Kay stumbled across Don Bitzer’s early flat-panel display. Its resolution was 16 pixels by 16 pixels — an impressive improvement over their earlier 4 pixel by 4 pixel display.
Alan saw those 256 glowing orange squares, and he went home, and he picked up a pen, and he drew a picture of a goddamn iPad.
 
And then he chased that carrot through decades of groundbreaking research, much of which is responsible for the hardware and software that you’re currently reading this with.
That’s the kind of ambitious, long-range vision I’m talking about. Pictures Under Glass is old news. Let’s start using our hands.”

Great food for thought on what could be wrong with most “future concepts” we’ve seen recently: A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design.
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“In 1968 — three years before the invention of the microprocessor — Alan Kay stumbled across Don Bitzer’s early flat-panel display. Its resolution was 16 pixels by 16 pixels — an impressive improvement over their earlier 4 pixel by 4 pixel display.

Alan saw those 256 glowing orange squares, and he went home, and he picked up a pen, and he drew a picture of a goddamn iPad.

And then he chased that carrot through decades of groundbreaking research, much of which is responsible for the hardware and software that you’re currently reading this with.

That’s the kind of ambitious, long-range vision I’m talking about. Pictures Under Glass is old news. Let’s start using our hands.”

Great food for thought on what could be wrong with most “future concepts” we’ve seen recently: A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design.

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    • #interaction design
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    • #user interface
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Fantastic covers of Italian magazine ‘Stile Industria. From the fifties and sixties: Stile Industria Collection.
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Fantastic covers of Italian magazine ‘Stile Industria. From the fifties and sixties: Stile Industria Collection.

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For all the iOS/mobile UI designers out there. Some great overview website to get inspiration when you’re working on a mobile app:
PTTRNS, huge overview of iOS User interfaces.
Mobile UI patterns, smaller but more specific.
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For all the iOS/mobile UI designers out there. Some great overview website to get inspiration when you’re working on a mobile app:

  • PTTRNS, huge overview of iOS User interfaces.
  • Mobile UI patterns, smaller but more specific.

(via @leenx and @wspruijt)

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    • #ux design
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    • #iphone
    • #ios
    • #patterns
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Guardian introduces their iPad edition. Video looks promising. (via @nozzman).

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Great typography in this app! FontBook on iPad

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Facebook just announced a new profile page at their F8 keynote. They just told that Nicholas Felton helped to design the new profile feature which is called Timeline. If you didn’t know him yet. Felton is famous for making an annual report. Of his own life. With all the data he could gather. Check out his annual reports at Feltron.com.
2012 is going to be about story telling.
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Facebook just announced a new profile page at their F8 keynote. They just told that Nicholas Felton helped to design the new profile feature which is called Timeline. If you didn’t know him yet. Felton is famous for making an annual report. Of his own life. With all the data he could gather. Check out his annual reports at Feltron.com.

2012 is going to be about story telling.

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  • 5 months ago
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Another “But what if we…” wish fulfilled. The Inkling by Wacom.

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Tattly is a temporary tattoo store for design-minded kids and kids-at-heart. After applying many bad-clip-art tattoos on her daughter, swissmiss decided to stop complaining and take matters into her own hands.
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Tattly is a temporary tattoo store for design-minded kids and kids-at-heart. After applying many bad-clip-art tattoos on her daughter, swissmiss decided to stop complaining and take matters into her own hands.

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Yesterday Google launched Google+ including a videochat. Design Shack wrote a really got article on why it’s so interesting, even with hundreds of competitors in the market. “There’s no awkward protocol here, the concept of the system is structured so that you’re supposed to launch video chats with people.”?
Google Hangouts: Thoughts on Concept vs. Functionality
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Yesterday Google launched Google+ including a videochat. Design Shack wrote a really got article on why it’s so interesting, even with hundreds of competitors in the market. “There’s no awkward protocol here, the concept of the system is structured so that you’re supposed to launch video chats with people.”?

Google Hangouts: Thoughts on Concept vs. Functionality

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  • 7 months ago
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Can't keep up with modern life & technology? I'm half Dutch, half Irish and addicted to roze koeken. So you can trust me by following this Tumblr.

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