The design magazine available in Flipboard is a bedtime guilty pleasure. There's something surreal about flipping through the architectural creativity exhibited in many of the living and housing feeds, the condos and homes...
The proliferation of the link-bait blog listicles comes at the expense of more serious, long-form articles which used to be a staple of the (print) newspaper and magazine industries. Now that they are suffering a slow but agonizing decline (complete with ineffective paywalls), in their place come a new form of online journalism: highly visual,...
I guess it's pretty common to come across software design whose main contribution is looking good in a screenshot or on a dribbble portfolio page. It's a bit less common to find a design that which accounts for interaction yet still doesn't seem to actually be, y'know,...
User interfaces are kind of a big deal nowadays in the valley; coming up with something minimalistic, simple, and takes the least amount of clicks/taps from the user is press conference material from the big companies, and the crux of every startup attempting to rethink calendars or email and every other default productivity app...
Responsive design! The One True Way™, born from the humble media query, to restore principles of DRY for web development while allowing for optimized experiences on today's myriad of devices. And it cures baldness. But for better or worse, it's become a oft-cited, oft-deployed strategy to deal with screen size fragmentation....
App stores are pretty old news now. They're easy repositories for developers to build small, usable - and in many cases, experimental - applications and make a few bucks selling them. It's an awesome platform for indie games, even if success has become increasing lopsided. I've found myself buying...
