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A plea for iOS 7 status bar sanity
There's not a pixel on the screen that iOS 7 won't be changing come this fall, including the status and menu bars that have lived on top of iPhones and iPads for years. Dave Wiskus, designer of Vesper,...
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Anatomy of an iOS 7 icon redesign
iOS 7 is coming this fall - perhaps as soon as mid-September - and in terms of design language and user experience, it'll hit like something shot out of a mass driver. Not only will customers have to...
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Imagining iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C: Casing, display, and design
Analyzing rumors and speculation surrounding Apple's 2013 iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c unibodies, displays, and overall designsWhen it comes to the iPhone, Apple has gotten into a pattern of tick-tock...
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Head of Android design comments on Google violating the iOS interface guidelines
Matias Duarte is a hell of a designer. He helped create webOS and then brought Android into the consistent, coherent 21st century. So, when he shares his thoughts on Google failing to use standard iOS...
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Samsung Galaxy Note 3 vs. Apple Find my Friends: Which faux stitched leather...
Design trends come and go but faux stitched leather is eternal. Witness: just as Apple has bid a not-so-fond farewell to the rich textures of Calendar and Find my Friends, Samsung has embraced new...
View ArticleReproducing the iOS 7 Home screen... using Microsoft Word
Gotta hand it to Vaclav Krejci, by sheer force of will and commitment to concept, he bent one of the most unwieldy apps in the history of computing into a pretty good static duplicate of iOS 7's Home...
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Lessons from Jony Ive: Caring, humanity, and more
I recently had drinks with a friend and the topic of Jony Ive's appearance with Marc Newson, on Charlie Rose came up. Even before he began mentioning his favorite moment, I knew instantly what it would...
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Apple 2013 Tech Talk videos, presentations now available to developers
Apple has posted their 2013 Tech Talk videos and presentations to their developer center. The talks, given by members of Apple's technology evangelist team, took place across North America, Asia, and...
View ArticleApple posts design guides and resources to help developers make better apps
Apple has added a new Design Guides and Resources section to their developer center. It includes videos and documentation on user interface design for apps and games, overviews of what's new in iOS 7,...
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Jony Ive to completely lead software design group as VP Greg Christie...
Greg Christie, longtime head of Apple's Human Interface (HI) group, will reportedly be leaving Apple in the near future. That'll position Jony Ive, SVP of Design, as the man in charge of all design...
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Apple releases iOS Human Interface Guidelines as a free book on the iBookstore
Apple has put its iOS Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) on the iBookstore as a free book. The book, which you can read in iBooks on an iOS device with iBooks 1.5 and iOS 4.3.3 or higher, as well as any...
View ArticleApp design walks the line between art and fashion, not unlike pop music
One year rich, skeuomorphic textures are all the rage, the next, flat designs and naked buttons. So are apps art or are they fashion? Are the made to stand the test of time to keep time with the latest...
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Former Android exec praises iPhone 6 design
At the WSJD Live conference, former Android exec Hugo Barra took to the stage to praise the design of Apple's iPhone 6, even going as far as saying that it's the most beautiful smartphone ever built....
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Apple's Jony Ive rails against today's design education landscape
Speaking at London's Design Museum last night, Apple's Jony Ive called the current design education landscape "tragic." The talk came about as Ive spoke about how Apple's efforts to hire young...
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Designing Apple TV apps
Apps running on a TV are nothing new.The Atari 2600 was probably the first mainstream example, and we've seen countless variants since, from Xboxes to PlayStations to Mac Minis running Front Row, Plex...
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Forget iOS 7, it's Hollywood Super suits that need a texture intervention
While many people are no doubt ecstatic that newly appointed head of all human interface at Apple, Jon Ive, is reportedly walking through iOS 7 with a sandblaster, stripping out overly heavy skins and...
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Samsung design video: High on lifestyle companionship, low on rationale for...
Apple typically accompanies the announcement of a new iPhone 5 with a video showcasing their design and manufacturing processes. Samsung has now done something similar for their just-released Galaxy...
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iOS 7 and a second coat of paint
Parts of iOS 7 shown off by Apple during the WWDC Keynote and on Apple.com look like we're still seeing the design briefs or wireframes rather than the final assets. Palettes have been chosen, elements...
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Flattened, not stirred: Designing Vesper
Dave Wiskus has posted a in-depth look at the design process behind Vesper, the list-taking, note-making, tag-shaking project he's just launched with Brent Simmons and John Gruber. Here's the lede from...
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Iterate 48: iOS 7 design special (Part 1)
Loren Brichter, Sebastiaan de With, Marc Edwards, Rene Ritchie, and Dave Wiskus discuss iOS 7 and the new design language Apple unveiled for it at WWDC 2013, including icons, fonts, physics,...
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Iterate 49: iOS 7 design special (Part 2)
Chris Clark, Brad Ellis, Louie Mantia, Neven Mrgan, Rene Ritchie discuss iOS 7 and the new design language Apple unveiled for it at WWDC 2013, including icons, fonts, physics, interactions, and more....
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Apple credited with 2 of the best 12 designs of the last 100 years. Can you...
What are the 12 best designs from the last 100 years? The question is impossible to answer. That doesn't mean people and publications won't try, however. As part of World Industrial Design Day, Monique...
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Marc Edwards' app design workflow
Don't know how I missed this. Marc Edwards, my co-host on Iterate is not only one of the best designers on the planet, but one of the most generous, and on top of all the articles and scripts he's...
View ArticleSoulver-ing for design
Marc Edwards of Bjango and, of course, Iterate continues to share some of the most interesting articles on design process on the web. Today's case in point, using Soulver to help figure out grids,...
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A plea for human rather than digital authenticity
With iOS 7 Apple famously - and loudly - removed the rich textures of icons and interfaces past and went with the current trend of flatter, more solid, and more type-centric design. Yet with OS X on...
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