Thursday, October 9, 2014
A sense that it wasn’t designRobert Sullivan has such a good interview with Jony Ive over at Vogue: In other words, the secret weapon of the most sought-after personal-electronics company in the world is a very nice guy from Northeast London who has a soft spot for woodworking and the sense that …Thursday, March 27, 2014
Listen: 99% InvisibleThis week’s featured podcast is 99% Invisible is “a tiny radio show about design,” by Roman Mars. If you think often about design, you’ll love every episode of this one. If you don’t think often about design, 99% Invisible will make you think often about design. Mars doesn’t …Thursday, December 19, 2013
Teehan+Lax on redesigning PrismaticIt’s a great post by great designers about the work and value that goes into and comes out of great design. It also happens to explain very clearly the concept behind my own website here at Constant & Endless. Geoff Teehan of Teehan+Lax writes: In the end, a …Thursday, October 31, 2013
HTML5 includes two tags, details and summary, that can be used to generate expanding menus you once needed JavaScript or jQuery for. A code snippet opening and closing with the “details” tag can include a summary that, when clicked, expands to reveal additional HTML. As of this writing, I’ve …Thursday, September 19, 2013
Reuters nixes Next: Failed redesigns and the challenge of expanding a digital audienceThat’s a shame. This image alone illustrates the design strides made by the Next team (the cancelled redesign is on the right). The Reuters iOS app is better than that of Associated Press, for what it’s worth.Friday, August 30, 2013
My first post at MediumIt’s something I put here in January, but I thought I’d point it out in case you hadn’t seen it, or you prefer Medium, or you have yet to see Medium in action.Friday, May 24, 2013
10 great free monospaced fonts for programmingI can understand why programmers may want to consider using a decent font, but it’s worth noting that writers, particularly those who prefer plain text, should also pay attention to the fonts they’re using. I like to write with a monospace font for two …Thursday, May 2, 2013
The Perfect Empty VesselThis is a good piece on how hard Facebook tries to keep the social juices flowing. Alexis Madrigal, commenting on Facebook’s designer-hiring spree: As all these designers vanish into the bowels of the company, so, too, does their work. Facebook wants to create design that …Friday, April 5, 2013
Twitter Arrives on Wall Street, Via BloombergInteresting news, but someone call the design police: there’s a crime being committed at every Bloomberg terminal on Wall Street. It’s 2013 and it looks like financial professionals are daily being punished with truly awful interface design. Don’t believe …Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Apple store trade dressI wonder if there are any retail stores out there that have looked like Apple stores since before Apple stores, and before this trademark was granted earlier this month. I don’t mean knock-off stores, though. I’m thinking make-up shops, art galleries, and other entities that …Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Designer Eats EngineerLaurie Voss: It’s getting easier for designers to become engineers. That’s a good thing, but it should be even easier. Design should be the hard part. This is a great post, and something I think about often. I can read and write a lot of HTML and CSS, and can read some …Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Introduction I hesitated to change themes because, well, it’s one of those things people do instead of writing. But while my customized version of Quite Big theme had treated me very well, I hate using Tumblr’s default mobile theme on phones, or seeing my desktop-optimized layout on a tablet. I also …Thursday, January 3, 2013
An interview with Mailbox founder Gentry UnderwoodAbdel Ibrahim, interviewing Mailbox founder Gentry Underwood at The Tech Block: Any plans for an Android app? Definitely. Startups focus or die, so we picked one device (iPhone) and one platform (Gmail) to start, but we’ve designed our …Tuesday, November 20, 2012
INTRODUCTION Disclaimer: I don’t know anything about design. I’m a user, and design work on websites made for frequent article consumption should be tailored to user experience. I may come off as arrogant, ignorant, or petty. That’s not my intention. I’m being honest about my thoughts. Engadget has …Thursday, November 8, 2012
“Parallel Thinking in Product Design Will Only Increase”Rain Noe at core77: When you have an uncomplicated design that’s boiled down to its pure essentials, you approach a kind of universal perfection, and that universality is the tricky part in a world filled with designers. This is a …Thursday, October 25, 2012
More interactive Tweets, in more than 2000 waysWhat ever happened to seeing a link and clicking on it? I don’t want garish, heavy embedded crap all over Twitter. But alas, it’s not my company or design to screw up, so I’ll stop whining (but not sulking).Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Invention as ArtThis is a great article on patent drawings and models, as selected for Co.Design by Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan.Friday, October 19, 2012
Alto: Aol’s attempt to redesign emailAustin Carr, writing at Fast Company's Co.Design blog: It’s actually proved to be a more modern and nimble alternative to many of its mainstream counterparts, and boasts many novel features that Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft, even with its beautiful …Saturday, October 13, 2012
Richard Branson on Design And if you’re building a spaceship company like Virgin Galactic, you might as well build the sexiest beast ever built—the sexiest spaceship, the sexiest mother ship, the sexiest space port. Getting every little bit of the design right is so important. Love this guy.Monday, October 1, 2012
The Honest Design AgeAllan Grinshtein of LayerVault, design software, designed for designers: It would be crazy to call these designers lazy — there’s an awesome amount of work and detailed involved in recreating beautiful “rich corinthian leather.” Still, it is laziness to not continue to refine. …Monday, September 24, 2012
MySpace renovationsDear MySpace: I am happy to see you lean away from Facebook and toward the new Digg and Rdio, with a clean design that prizes whitespace as much as content. Give me something functional and pretty, without the spammy taste of Facebook or the learning curve of Google+. Do this for …Thursday, August 23, 2012
Longread: Brand as Context in Interaction DesignBen Fullerton of Method, writing in UX Magazine on the interplay between user experience design and brand messaging: For designers, the development of a compelling brand helps to round out the design, creating a before and after. It builds a …Saturday, August 18, 2012
How to Save the Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily NewsJoel Mathis, writing at Philadelphia Magazine‘s blog The Philly Post, may have a point. But going online-only would require a serious modernization of the Philly.com brand and site design. I don’t see the ownership having the vision to …Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Co-creator Jim Ray of Mule Design describes Evening Edition like this: It’s a summary of the day’s news, written by an actual journalist, with links to the best reporting in the world, published once a day. Last night, in between reading the news using various Android apps, I spotted a link to …