Tag Archive | "design"
Apple design secrets exposed! How Apple came up with the 6th gen iPod Nano and the iPod Shuffle [Photo]
So how did Apple get from the 4th/5th gen iPod Nano to the device’s current form factor? Well, it was actually a complex process with multiple objectives as you can see from the photo below. They just divided the old style Nano in two – with the top half becoming the 6th gen iPod Nano [...]
Continue reading...Facebook acquires Push Pop Press, shores up impressive design talent
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
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Facebook yesterday announced that it had acquired Push Pop Press, the innovative company staffed by former Apple employees Mike Matas and Kimon Tsinteris. Push Pop Press, in case you’re unfamiliar, was the company behind the innovative and interactive iPad app “Our Choice” which is based on a book by former Vice President Al Gore. “Our [...]
Continue reading...Dieter Rams on Apple design – “They achieved what I never did”
Monday, July 25, 2011
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Dieter Rams is an iconic German designer perhaps best known for his work at Braun where he helped design a wide range of products, from record players to slide projectors, coffee makers and radios. Indeed, a number of Rams’ designs now take up residence in various museums across the globe. Apple of course is no [...]
Continue reading...Dynamic Icons in iOS 5 – Concept Video
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Yet another intriguing concept video courtesy of Jan Michael Cart, a college student from the University of Georgia with a talent for interesting iOS concept videos. In the one below, he outlines how dynamic icons in iOS might be implemented. We can’t lie, it looks pretty cool and is clearly a blend between iOS’s standard [...]
Continue reading...Apple’s iCloud icon and the Golden Ratio
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
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An interesting tidbit for all you design nerds out there. Apple’s new iCloud icon apparently makes use of the famed Golden Ratio, a.k.a the divine proportion. What is the Golden Ratio exactly? Technically speaking, it occurs when the ratio of an entire picture (for example) to the larger quantity of that picture is equal to [...]
Continue reading...Apple’s frayed power cables – an explanation
Saturday, June 11, 2011
What you see above is the difference between an Apple powercable circa 2007 and 2009. The one on the left is robust while the one on the right tends to break a whole lot easier. Indeed, an iPod Touch cable I purchased about 9 months ago is already starting to fray after only moderate usage [...]
Continue reading...Apple looking to build massive new campus with “spaceship” style building
Thursday, June 9, 2011
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A real life Mac Mothership looks like it’s headed for Cupertino. Steve Jobs earlier this week took some time out of his busy schedule to appear before the Cupertino City Council where he relayed Apple’s desire to build a mammoth new campus on the 98 Acre plot of land it acquired from Hewlett Packard late [...]
Continue reading...Awesome concept video for iOS notifications – Apple, take note!
Thursday, May 5, 2011
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One of the glaring shortcomings of iOS is in how it handles notifications. Sure, Apple’s implementation is workable, but it’s not exactly the most fluid and under the radar approach. Even the notification system on the Palm Pre way back in the day had more sheen and was more intuitive than Apple’s. Apple, however, hasn’t [...]
Continue reading...iOS 5 and Mac integration – Concept Video
Friday, April 22, 2011
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Some of the finer features of iOS 5 remain unknown at this point, though we eagerly look forward to WWDC 2011 when we’ll finally get a glimpse into Apple’s next-gen iOS. As it stands now, most of what we’ve heard about iOS 5 involves features concerning location functionality. So until WWDC approaches in June, we’re [...]
Continue reading...The design process behind OS X 10.0 and Steve Jobs’ remarkable level of involvement
Friday, April 8, 2011
On March 24, 2001, after years of intense development, Apple publicly released the first version of OS X. OS X, based on the NeXTstep OS Apple acquired from Steve Jobs, marked a radical departure from the UI Mac users had grown accustomed to. There was the dock, the aqua interface, and of course, those red, [...]
Continue reading...Marco Ament on why competitors can’t keep up with the iPad
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
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2011 has already been dubbed “The year of the tablet.” And with a bevy of iPad competitors poised to hit store shelves in the coming months, “The year of the wannabe tablets” might be a bit more apropos. Or, as Steve Jobs snidely remarked, 2011 is poised to be the “year of the copycats.” As [...]
Continue reading...Apple looking to beef up the iOS notification system
Friday, February 11, 2011
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Measured against every mobile OS currently out on the market, Apple’s iOS compares favorably in nearly ever area. But one realm where Apple has to play catchup is in its notification system. While Apple’s current implementation is alright, it was nowhere near as slick as the one Palm implemented on the Palm Pre way back [...]
Continue reading...The influence of Apple hardware design – CES 2011 style
Thursday, January 6, 2011
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Okay, we’re not breaking any news here when we say that Apple products tend to influence, both in hardware and software, entire product markets. Currently, CES is in full swing and the iPad clones are out in full force, but some glaring Apple inspired hardware we came across needs some special attention. Below is the [...]
Continue reading...RIM was in disbelief following the introduction of the iPhone in January 2007
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
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When Steve Jobs first introduced the iPhone, he explained that Apple was trying to create a smartphone that would leapfrog the competition by at least 5 years. Given that Android has made impressive strides as of late, the 5 year head-start afforded to Apple by the iPhone might be a bit generous, but there’s no [...]
Continue reading...“Nothing is Original”
Monday, November 1, 2010
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Steve Jobs once stated, “Good artists copy, great artists steal. And we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.” In that vein, another quote to dwell on… “Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, [...]
Continue reading...Yes, the new Gap logo sucks
Monday, October 11, 2010
Last week, our twitter feed was filled to the brim with folks crying foul over the Gap’s new logo. And yes, there’s no denying that it’s absolutely horrible. In fact, it looks like something you’d come up with while blindly poking around with Photoshop.. for the first time. Worse yet, the president of Gap North [...]
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Thursday, August 4, 2011
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