For iOS app producer David Barnard, making money from paid applications in Apple's App Store is becoming more difficult. Barnard is the founder of Contrast (previously App Cubby), which makes apps such as Launch Center Pro [iTunes link] and Perfect Weather [iTunes link]. Perfect Weather, Contrast's…

The 55 miles from Campbell to San Francisco make for one of the nicest commutes anywhere. The journey mostly zips along the Junipero Serra Freeway, a grand and remarkably empty highway that abuts the east side of the Santa Cruz Mountains. It is one of the best places in Silicon Valley to spot a…

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-09-25/apples-jonathan-ive-and-craig-federighi-the-complete-interview Photographs by Adam Amengual for Bloomberg BusinessweekFrom left: Jony Ive, head of…

There’s a growing market opportunity for the iOS platform and it has nothing to do with what has traditionally helped it grab headlines: big business. Apple’s iOS platform is…

The iPhone 5s is a minor update to the iPhone, but it feels surprisingly significant to me after just a few hours of use. The speed of the A7 is far, far more important than I had expected; the…

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Most efforts to explain design at Apple end up reducing a complex 37-year history to bromides about simplicity, quality, and perfection--as if those were ambitions unique to Apple alone. So Fast…

If Apple is known for one thing, it's impeccable design. If Apple is known for two things, it's impeccable design shrouded in a culture of secrecy. So Fast Company spent months collecting more than…

TONY FADELL, senior VP, iPod division (now CEO, Nest Labs): Design at Apple was product, product, product until about 2001. Then Apple's design became experiential. There was a product--the iPod--and…

If there is one thing that CEO Tim Cook doesn't want people to know, it's what dwells behind his company's "signature." As a result, most efforts to explain design at Apple end up reducing a complex…

Recently, someone asked me to critique some new mobile work they’d done. The app looked pretty great overall, but some of the design was following the lead that iOS7 created precedent with.…

Shortly after the WWDC event in San Francisco in June, a multitude of iOS7 resources became available on the web. Throughout the hundreds of sessions, speakers and keynotes, Apple unveiled their new…

A few years ago, I just didn’t get it. I couldn’t for the life of me understand how a company like Amazon could operate, let alone flourish. I spent the majority of my time following Apple, a company…

I woke up surprised by gratitude.Today is new. It’s like a plate set before a me at breakfast to which I am regularly invited. I don’t own the plate or the food on it. The host invites…

About Jeffrey Jeffrey Veen is the Vice President of Products for Adobe, where he runs product development for their Creative Cloud service. He joined Adobe in October 2011 when they acquired Typekit,…

A great man once said that we should look up at the stars, be curious, and keep asking questions. With the App Store now a five-year-old business, I would like – allow me to paraphrase that…

This is a sentiment I’ve heard repeatedly over the past week or so, most recently in a quote from Justin Rhoades: It’s like a pendulum swinging from obvious visual affordances to…

Just about the most asinine, presumptuous, hubris-filled thing a designer can say is that someone else’s design is “wrong”. That word is reserved for judgments of absolute truth…

Okay….so I am always on the lookout for how celebrities describe their faith.  I find it interesting.  9 times out of 10 they end up creating a God that does not exist in the Bible.…

Body Was there a lot that was terribly wrong with the look and feel of iOS 6? Not in my book. It certainly wasn’t perfect, and many swaths of it were begging for some kind of house cleaning,…

When reflecting on yesterday’s insane Apple keynote, I thought about John Gruber’s piece for Macworld in which he wrote:This is how the designers and engineers at Apple roll: They…

A few times a week, we get emails from students and young designers looking for an internship or full-time opportunities at the studio. We’re not quite ready in terms of needing outside help,…

Listen up. You probably think you’re pretty talented, and that you’re using your formidable design skills on important, meaningful problems. Well, you’re wrong.The situation in…