Tag Archive | "design"
Snow Leopard’s gorgeous 512×512 icons
Cult of Mac recently took a look at the new 512×512 icons in Snow Leopard. Some of the following icons undoubtedly look familiar, but some have seen slight adjustments, and in all cases, the attention to detail is unbelievably impressive. Check out some of our favorites after the break.
Continue reading...Design process of “Convert” iPhone app [Video]
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Check out this fascinating look into the design process behind the brilliant UI of “Convert”, a sleek unit converter app for the iPhone. The sheer number of different looks and designs the developers experimented with really shows how seriously they took their task. It’s a lot like the old saying – Good timber doesn’t grow […]
Continue reading...Fact: Adam Savage of MythBusters is a huge Apple fan
Thursday, August 13, 2009
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You may not immediately recognize the name, “Adam Savage”, but you’d undoubtedly recognize him as half of the entertaining duo on the popular TV show MythBusters (hint: he’s the one not wearing a beret). When Savage and his partner aren’t busy trying to figure out if one can survive an elevator crash by jumping up […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs on why Apple doesn’t do market research
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
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As opposed to most companies, Apple doesn’t typically rely on focus groups or market research to help guide its product development, and in an interview with Fortune a few years back, Apple CEO Steve Jobs explained why. “We do no market research. We don’t hire consultants”, said Jobs. “The only consultants I’ve ever hired in […]
Continue reading...Comparing the iPhone and Android Keyboards
Sunday, August 9, 2009
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Ignore the code has an interesting comparison of the virtual keyboard as implemented on the iPhone and on the HTC Magic running Android. His conclusion? A virtual keyboard lives and dies by the details. It’s not that there’s a single feature which makes the iPhone’s virtual keyboard better than Android’s; it’s death by a thousand […]
Continue reading...The Apple Design Process
Saturday, August 8, 2009
Pragmatic Marketing has a great read on Apple’s innovation process and why other companies simply aren’t able, or perhaps willing, to match its design prowess. Like a basketball player who shoots 500 jumpers a day in practice to get his form and accuracy down pat, Apple just keeps on drilling and drilling until it has […]
Continue reading...An old, yet still timely, case for using OS X
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
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Check out this on-point article from Tumblr developer Marco Ament on why you should consider switching to OS X. The article’s about a year and a half old, but the arguments still hold up today. Mac software follows design principles that you rarely see in Windows: Incredible attention to detail Simple, clean interfaces Justified, focused […]
Continue reading...Palm hires yet another former Apple employee as new SVP of Brand Design
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
The number of former Apple employees now working for Palm is quite extensive, and now you can add another name to the list. Palm recently added Jeff Zwerner to its management team as its new Senior Vice President of Brand Design. In his new role, Zwerner will apply “his significant expertise in strategic brand design […]
Continue reading...A look back at un-released Apple prototypes [Photo]
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
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A new book from designer Harmut Esslinger of Frog Design gives us a small glimpse into Apple’s design process via photos and stories of Apple prototypes that never made it to market. Frog Design, in case you’re unaware, is a design company that was instrumental in churning out designs for number of popular Apple products […]
Continue reading...The “Genius” of Rob Enderle, and the myth of Apple marketing
Thursday, July 23, 2009
In his latest article, Enderle writes: Apple is a marketing-driven company — something unique in the technology segment — while Microsoft has largely been engineering-driven. During the 90s, this was actually more of an Apple liability than an asset, because Apple was being run by people who clearly didn’t get Apple’s unique capability. Steve Jobs […]
Continue reading...Examples of how Apple pays attention to the “little things”
Friday, July 17, 2009
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Apple’s attention to detail when it comes to hardware and software design is arguably unparalleled in the computer industry. Often times, many of the tweaks and “oh wow, that’s cool!” moments pop up out of nowhere and in a nerdy and uniquely Apple way, leave you with a smile on your face. With that said, […]
Continue reading...An Apple Remote vs. a Microsoft Remote
Thursday, July 16, 2009
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Pictured below – An Apple Remote and Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Universal Media Remote. Marco Ament writes of the obvious differences in design and function between the two: The Microsoft remote uses two AA batteries that need to be replaced about every 6 months. The Apple remote uses a single CR2032 that has never needed to […]
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Tuesday, September 8, 2009
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