Design does matter.
John Gruber, today:
For years, when Apple was down, they were held up as proof that making the best products didn’t matter. The Mac is better than Windows and look what happened was the refrain.
Not any more. Yesterday, Apple recorded the second most profitable quarter of any US company, ever. Just look at these charts from Dan Frommer:
Design for living, beginning tonight at the TIFF Bell Lightbox.
From January 13 to January 17, browse to tiff.net/design for details on joining Gary Hustwit and friends in viewing his three-part exploration of modern design, the docs Helvetica, Objectified, and Urbanized.
Burton Kramer, Identities, chronicles an icon of Canadian design.
Designers in Canada owe a debt to Burton Kramer. As Roger Remington states in the introduction of Burton Kramer, Identities:
Kramer became known as a staunch advocate of fully integrated design at a time when such an approach was virtually unknown in Canada.
Bringing this Swiss design ethos to Canada in the mid-60s was quite a revelation and, with Expo 67, gave Kramer and designers such as Moshe Safdie an opportunity to shine as the world visited Montreal.
Oh, wow, we totally need to find some great app designers.
If you’re passionate about game play, game mechanics, game theory, sports, poker, first person shooters, beer and socializing, we want to hear from you. Well, only if you can design too. Say Yeah is hiring designers with Web, mobile and mobile app experience to support our gaming clients (console, PC and mobile) in their efforts to build a stronger, more rewarding relationship with their users, whether on Web or mobile devices, consoles, or elsewhere.
(See photo above for an example of one of our lonely desks and Aeron chairs).
To the man who has shaped our industry and the work we do. From how we work to how we think. Rest in peace.
Seth Godin, on the law of large groups:
This explains why the people you see at the gym tend to be in better shape than you are. … People who are at the gym a lot (as in the people you see the most often) tend to be in better shape because they show up more often.
Iterate, baby!
Foursquare’s Mari Sheibley talks about the evolution of Foursquare design on the iPhone, from Jan ‘09 through to August ‘11:
Jonathan Ive, Senior VP of Industrial Design at Apple.
From Five Low-Hanging UX Tips.
(via stoweboyd)
OSX Lion: Form over function highlights.
The two skeuomorphic apps which ship with OSX Lion, iCal and Address Book, offer some frustrating form over function compromises which obscure content.
iCal has relegated your list of Calendars to a recessed button top left. Clicking this pops up a semi-transparatent overlay with a list of your calendars which you can then toggle on/off, but there’s no way to make this list of calendars viewable at all times.
For the general user, this won’t be a concern, but in the office we’re all synced up to our iCal server so we have a handle on vacation schedules, meeting scheduling, and so on.
