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Link: The Growing User and the Perennial Beginner →
Lukas Mathis: The two goals — simplicity and depth — are at odds. Adding depth also adds complexity. So, what should you do? Go for depth, or go for simplicity? Permalink
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From The Apple Cookbook: A Recipe for Tablet Makers
The iPad is a fine mix of ingredients from the internal components, the external ecosystem, and the marketing machine that Apple has perfected over the past 10 years, since the introduction of the...
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Link: The New BSOD →
Interesting design choice with the text smiley, but a marked improvement from the hexadecimal error page Permalink
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Link: Skeumorphisms →
John Gruber comments on James Higgs’s post on the juxtaposition of leather-decorated apps on minimalist hardware. I think Gruber’s last statement is a great summary of why Apple chooses to perhaps go...
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Design Unification with Google Apps
In the past 10 years, Google’s application portfolio has grown a tremendous amount: the once budding search engine is now a hub for the world’s information. Google is where one go to find information,...
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Weekly Download #19: Microsoft and Visions of the Future, Designing for the...
Today’s podcast takes more of a thematic term as we discuss design, mainly using Google as a lens — what makes design for Google work? What makes it struggle? We also discuss the Microsoft “vision of...
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Link: James Cameron on 3D →
We have discussed 3D movies and television in various podcasts and given our take on it. USA Today recently interviewed James Cameron asking his opinion on the current state of 3D. Permalink
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Link: BBC’s Design Process for iPlayer →
BBC has released a unique blog post on how they designed the iPlayer. It is interesting to see how this app came to be and all of the design and thought processes behind it. **The new iPlayer is...
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Link: Today’s Best Executing Startup →
Anil Dash: I think we need more stories that celebrate the success of what seem like small, iterative product launches, but actually reflect triumphs in unsung disciplines such as systems operations,...
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Link: Dangers of Fracking →
Just scroll (becoming a common theme with modern web design). (via Daring Fireball) Permalink
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