If you're setting out to build an app, you have a few different options to consider. Should you be part of a larger company, it's possible there are resources in-house. It's also possible you could wrangle together a group of freelancers or work with an agency like Savvy Apps. Finally, you might…

Apple Music launched yesterday across all iOS devices. Trent Reznor , who came to Apple after the software giant acquired his employer, Beats , played a key role in designing the streaming service. He also premiered instrumental versions of Nine Inch Nails ' The Fragile and With Teeth LPs through…

There is a lot of noise on the news and in public forums about gay marriage and traditional values. Everyone has an opinion on what’s right and what’s wrong. But what would Jesus say? How would Jesus address a gay man or a lesbian? Looking through Scripture, Jesus makes His thoughts fairly clear. 5…

My Answers To Questions About Gay Marriage • June 24, AD2015 With regard to gay “marriage”, here is a list of the questions I come across most often, with my brief answers: -1- “Why are you against gay marriage?” It’s not that I am against gay “marriage” per se , it’s that gay “marriage” is an…

Stephen Curry: ‘I Can Do All Things Through Christ’ By • April 19, 2016 Home Stories Stephen Curry, a devout Christian, led Golden State to its first NBA Championship this past June. The Warriors have opened the new season 15-0 and need a win Tuesday night against the Los Angeles Lakers to set an…

SAN FRANCISCO — The day before Apple kicked off its annual Worldwide Developer Conference ( WWDC ), the company hosted a special orientation session for the recipients of its WWDC Scholarship Program — with a special surprise guest, CEO Tim Cook. Historically, Apple has offered WWDC scholarships to…

Last week, along with a few of the folks from Adobe with whom I’ve been working on Adobe Comp CC , I visited a handful of design teams at companies here in New York City. The original inspiration for the meetings was to share some of the thinking that’s driving Adobe’s new creativity software (like…

How to Impress an Interviewer The two traits that speak most to future potential By Julie Zhuo There was a story floating around the grapevine a few years back that Google, with their Lvl. 99 data prowess, once used those skills on their interview and performance review process to try and answer the…

Apple is synonymous with upper echelon design, but very little is known about the company's design process. Most of Apple's own employees aren't allowed inside Apple's fabled design studios. So we're left piecing together interviews , or outright speculating about how Apple does it and what it's…

Last October, on stage at the annual Adobe Max conference, I debuted a collaboration between Adobe and myself called Project LayUp , a new iPad app for designers. Today, that app officially launches in the App Store under a new name: Adobe Comp CC . Read the company’s official release for the app is…

@gak_pdx Apple is the world's foremost manufacturer of goods. At one time, this statement had to be caged and qualified with modifiers such as "consumer goods" or "electronic goods," but last quarter, Apple shipped a Boeing 787's weight worth of iPhones every 24 hours . When we add the rest of the…

[Photos & Graphics: courtesy of Robleh Jama] Apple ads are some of the most iconic pieces of television ever made. The "Mac Vs. PC" ads , the Steve Jobs-mandated "Think Different" campaign, and the "There’s an app for that" iPhone commercials are now part of computer marketing lore. The recent…

The Apple Watch isn't going to flop . An Apple "flop" right now is probably a multi-billion-dollar industry, after all. Rather, the watch is the first step of the next major shift for a company that has made its money by essentially trend forecasting in the technology space. The future of tech is…

One day, when Marc Andreessen, the money man behind such tech giants as Facebook, Twitter, and Zynga, was out driving around his home in Palo Alto, California, he nearly hit a crazy old man crossing the street. Looking back at the fool he had nearly run over he noticed the trademark blue jeans and…

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“So much of our manufactured environment testifies to carelessness,” Ive says. Things are “developed to be different, not better.” Credit Photograph by Pari Dukovic I. Launch Day In recent months, Sir Jonathan Ive, the forty-seven-year-old senior vice-president of design at Apple—who used to play…

Last June, Apple announced that it would stop development of its Aperture and iPhoto apps and offer a single photo app in their place—Photos for OS X. Today, developers are getting their first glimpse of Photos, as it’s bundled with the beta version of OS X 10.10.3. Providing many of the features…

The first question from potential Karbon clients is usually “how much does it cost to build an iOS app?”. This is, of course, an impossible question—every app is different, every situation demands unique effort and therefore unique estimation. As a followup, I’m frequently asked what the high- and…

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This is the best grocery store in America. Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images Chances are that you have never set foot inside the best grocery store in America: Aldi . And even if you are lucky enough to be in one of the 32 states where Aldi is, perhaps you were put-off by the cardboard boxes in lieu…

My wife and I just had our first child, so I took most of the month of September off from work. I checked in here and there, but mostly my attention was somewhere else entirely. Before I went away, I thought a bit about how to do it. A tempting option was to leave precise instructions detailing how…

Google’s new design language, material design, makes its debut this week in Lollipop, the latest version of Android. It brings a bright new look to phones and tablets. But to hear Google’s designers explain it, material design is something far more ambitious than a new coat of pixels. By combining…

Throughout my professional life, I’ve tried to maintain a basic level of privacy. I come from humble roots, and I don’t seek to draw attention to myself. Apple is already one of the most closely watched companies in the world, and I like keeping the focus on our products and the incredible things…

By: John O’Sullivan “My 4 th grader tried to play basketball and soccer last year,” a mom recently told me as we sat around the dinner table after one of my speaking engagements. “It was a nightmare. My son kept getting yelled at by both coaches as we left one game early to race to a game in the…

My fellow Americans, Let me tell you a tale. A friend of mine was recently laid off. He’s a hardworking kind of guy, so he decided to forgo the customary process of sitting around his house complaining on Facebook that no employers are knocking on his door to compliment his pajamas and offer him six…

I recently celebrated my nine-year anniversary at Salesforce. And one of the really amazing things about working here over the years is that you get to see the Salesforce1 Platform evolve from humble beginnings into what is today — an amazing force for innovation for our customers. It’s fun to think…

Steve Jobs’s office remains Steve Jobs’s office. After his death in 2011, Tim Cook, his friend and successor as Apple chief executive officer, decided to leave the sparsely decorated room on the fourth floor of 1 Infinite Loop untouched. It’s not a shrine or place of mourning, but just a space that…

( Marcio Jose Sanchez/Associated Press) That means there are a lot of options. It’s unlike Apple, really. This is the company usually known for designing products that say, “Here’s the look we’ve chosen for you.” You can control the watch using at least four methods. First, there’s Siri. You can…