A few years back, let’s say 2006, iA put together an impressive redesign of Facebook that provides a much cleaner feel and a cool horizontal information flow from less to more specific. Filter to info stream to reaction as they put it in the article.
I dig the clear hierarchy of the columns and the clean [...]
Todd Lapin shot a video of his 2.5 year old daughter playing with the iPad for the first time that’s been getting a lot of link love on YouTube (embed below). The video’s very cute and points to easy iPad adoption by iPhone users of all ages. The video doesn’t get into some points of [...]
My first thoughts on the iPad included a lot of concerns about not being able to create on the iPad yet and pointing toward graphical applications as the quickest road to delivering that.
iPad specific answers to the creation challenge are appearing. This video for iMockups places a nice face on these answers.
There have been varied reactions to the iPad but those that most interest me are those that go beyond Apple’s marketing message of “the iPad is a new thing that will revolutionize computing” and ask “where will this revolution lead?”
An angle I find especially interesting is expressed in Alex Payne’s On the iPad.
What I find [...]
The long awaited Apple tablet is announced. We’ve had the opportunity to “see [their] latest creation.” Time to consider what it all means.
Pre-release expectations
Talking with friends about the iPad back when we were all still speculating on the name we came across rumors that dashed our early hopes. The tablet would most likely use iPhone [...]
In his Spoolcast interview Dan Brown provides some interesting perspectives on documentation and design deliverables, using his book Communicating Design as a starting point.
Growing documents
Brown begins by suggesting that designers start documents with a basic nucleus of necessary information then adding detail in layers. He also put forward the idea that ideal documentation should be [...]
Mike Davidson has done the unthinkable: make a MySpace profile that doesn’t make designers’ eyes bleed.
Check out Hacking A More Tasteful MySpace for details, then take a look at the discussion on MySpace the great and powerful in Unstoppable Force or Unnecessary Click Factory?
As Mike notes, the profile page design is a bit of a [...]
As part of their Apple Turns 30 coverage, CNET’s showcasing photos of the early Lisa and Mac interfaces, courtesy of Bill Atkinson and Andy Hertzfeld.
For a somewhat less garish (though smaller) presentation of those same photos fortified with historical notes goodness, check out Hertzfeld’s “Busy Being Born” article on Folklore.org.
Whichever flavor you choose, it’s a [...]
As my brother continues the visual redesign of our family site (primarily a web forum and gallery), he’s now facing down typographic issues. What typeface will best fit our family and how we use our site? What’s the prevailing family aesthetic, and does it work toward or against legibility or clear typographic hierarchy?
It’s been interesting [...]