Photo: Art Streiber Conversations with Jack Dorsey frequently veer into obscure subject matter. Job interviews pivot into 30-minute disquisitions on the New York Yankees. Press briefings transform…
Photo: Art Streiber Conversations with Jack Dorsey frequently veer into obscure subject matter. Job interviews pivot into 30-minute disquisitions on the New York Yankees. Press briefings transform…
Happiness has become an abandoned house. Once alive, once full of warmth and activity. Over time, piece by piece, things move away from it until there are only bones and echoes. And I've done it…
8:59 AM Monday June 4, 2012 by Donald Reinertsen and Stefan Thomke | Comments There is a common myth about product development: the more features we put into a product, the more customers…
Three members of the TUAW team -- Mike Schramm, Brett Terpstra and myself -- are going to be in San Francisco next week for WWDC 2012. Apple has never let us into the keynote and likely never will,…
“We’re going to double down on secrecy on products.” —Tim Cook, yesterday at the D10 conference I’ve long compared Apple punditry to Cold War-era Kremlinology…
“We’re going to double down on secrecy on products.” —Tim Cook, yesterday at the D10 conference I’ve long compared Apple punditry to Cold War-era Kremlinology…
Facebook Camera vs. Instagram What I think happened: It was clear soon after Instagram launched that it was a hit, and Facebook was savvy enough to realize that an integral part of Instagram’s appeal…
I imagine everybody reading this already knows that we sold the Casey’s Contraptions game and IP to Rovio. They’ll be relaunching the game as Amazing Alex for iOS and other platforms…
Keeping track of the time you spend during certain activities can be useful for many reasons. The most obvious one that comes to mind is if you are a freelancer that needs to bill by the hour, and…
It’s increasingly hard for indie developers to compete with large game publishers. But if there’s any platform the underdog can rise over (or come close to) the big dogs, it’s in…
When we founded Sky Balloon we endeavored to do one thing: make iOS (or, at the time, iPhone) software that we wanted. Because of that, after we successfully shipped our first iPhone app, Rhema, we…
Tweetbot package version 2.1 weights 33.4MB in total, of which over 26MB is used for 978 images. It has all images compressed with Xcode, which converted them to “CgBi” format.Here are…
On Wednesday, May 26, 2010, just after 2:30 p.m., the unthinkable happened: Apple became the largest company in the tech universe, and, after ExxonMobil, the second largest in the nation. For months,…
Sorry, but I have to stop you this very instant. If you are expecting to learn something new by reading this article, I am going to let you down big time. However, I do think you should bookmark this…
Skeumorphism & Storytelling Skeumorphism & Storytelling 20Apr Designers love to hate skeumorphism. It’s just decoration, they say. It’s completely useless. It will go out…
Hillman Curtis, a former rock musician who became a prominent first-generation Web designer and a visionary figure in the Internet’s evolution from a predominantly text-based medium to the multimedia…
In 2008 we released our first iOS PSD. We continue to do it, not only because we find useful, but because we think a lot of other designers do too. In fact, over the past four years they’ve…
If you take a close look at Facebook’s S-1 registration statement, you’ll notice something striking: Designers are called out as key to the company’s long-term strategic success.…
I woke up today and looked at my support ticket queue. And there were 250 tickets open. As much as I appreciate the feedback and the engagement you guys bring up, it has gotten to a point where…
Stop the press: There exists a world outside of the Adobe Creative Suite. And it’s called Keynote. I should start by saying I am by no means a Keynote ‘pro’ compared with many of our web team who could use it in their sleep. In fact, when I first started working at ESPI last July, I was very…
With the latest versions of iOS, it’s possible to send audio directly from an iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad out to AirPlay devices like an Apple TV or AirPort Express. You can now beam music…
The Weight We had been on a long journey but I couldn’t see it anywhere. There's a stage in a product cycle where you know it’s going to ship. Where you can see the end. It's right…
After 40 million downloads on iOS, Temple Run is now available for Android. Ryan Rigney speaks with the husband-and-wife team behind the runaway success. Ever since Apple opened its App Store in June…
After 40 million downloads on iOS, Temple Run is now available for Android. Ryan Rigney speaks with the husband-and-wife team behind the runaway success. Ever since Apple opened its App Store in June…
The Photoshop CS6 beta is now available. It includes a ton of big and small improvements over previous versions. Here are the ones that matter to me, as an interface designer. Layer searching Search…
Back in 1998, websites would often force visitors to aimlessly move their mouse around, trying to reveal hidden icons or pieces of text that would explain where to click. Frustrated with these…
Back in 1998, websites would often force visitors to aimlessly move their mouse around, trying to reveal hidden icons or pieces of text that would explain where to click. Frustrated with these…
By Chris Coyier · March 5th, 2012 The fine folks over at Overcommited have created a really neat iPad app called Entries that makes it easier for forms to be filled out on Apple’s tablet.…
It's an interesting debate I think. Both sides have their merits. First, it's much easier designing in 1x to export things. I find when designing in 2x you often come up with odd number sized assets,…
As Apple’s Senior Vice President of Industrial Design, he is the driving force behind the firm’s products, from the Mac computer to the iPod, iPhone and, most recently the iPad. He…
Apple CEO Tim Cook announcing the newest iPad Imagine you run a large technology company not named Apple. Let’s say you’re Steve Ballmer, Michael Dell, Meg Whitman, Larry Page, or Intel’s Paul Otellini. How are you feeling today, a day after Apple CEO Tim Cook unveiled the new iPad? Are you…
Image courtesy of Engadget Yesterday afternoon, sitting in a darkened conference room, I vapidly made my way through a routine meeting. Staring at my phone, constantly refreshing Safari and switching between apps, I attempted to follow the closing moments of Apple's iPad event. Having heard the…
“Only Apple could deliver this kind of innovation, in such abeautiful, integrated, and easy-to-use way. It’s what we love todo. It’s what we stand for. And across the year, you’re going tosee a lot more of this kind of innovation. We are just gettingstarted.” That was Tim Cook, closing yesterday’s…
There are numerous changes to look forward to when Mountain Lion roars onto the scene this summer, along with some major system additions like Notification Center and Gatekeeper. But for those uninterested in flashy features, there are plenty of minor system changes, too. Here’s a quick look at ten…
With the release of Tweetbot for iPad earlier today, we thought that this would be a good time to kick off an ongoing series of interviews with developers, designers and product managers actively working in the Mac and iOS field. This week, we speak to Tapbots’ Paul Haddad about the state of the App…
“We’re starting to do some things differently,” Phil Schiller said to me. We were sitting in a comfortable hotel suite in Manhattan just over a week ago. I’d been summoned a few days earlier by Apple PR with the offer of a private “product briefing”. I had no idea heading into the meeting what it…
We are extremely close to releasing our first interactive children’s book for iPad, iPhone/iPod and Android devices. This represents a first step into a niche market that I feel is going to be very important to Glowdot in the coming months and, hopefully, years. Glowdot has been developing software…
I am no longer a part of Stack Exchange . I still have much literal and figurative stock in the success of Stack Exchange, of course, but as of March 1st I will no longer be part of the day to day operations of the company, or the Stack Exchange sites , in any way. It's been almost exactly 4 years…
On iOS and almost every other operating system, user interfaces tend to use gradients to give a sense of contour to interface elements. The trouble is, gradients alone can look artificial due to their unrealistically perfect visual smoothness. In the real world, almost nothing is completely flat and…
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