Nice article on Design Shack why Pinterest is so great. From an UX view.
Typographic shelves. Create them yourself on Quattria.
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.
(via wtf-mobile-web)
“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.
Fantastic covers of Italian magazine ‘Stile Industria. From the fifties and sixties: Stile Industria Collection.
(via Fontanel)
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)
Guardian introduces their iPad edition. Video looks promising. (via @nozzman).
Great typography in this app! FontBook on iPad
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.
Another “But what if we…” wish fulfilled. The Inkling by Wacom.
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.
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.”?
