“If the seams have been covered, you can’t admire how things connect.”
“I’d say every designer should design a clock at some point.”
Sebastiaan de With, in Awakenings: An Android Design Process
“Happiness is the most important metric in personal technology. If it improves lives, it is important.”
“I think that you can wait forever for the muse to sit on your shoulder, but most of the time you know what has to be done and inspiration is not going to help you.”
Nick Hornby, in an interview at The Talks
A First Look at BankSimple
A sneak peek at the BankSimple UI. Big banks, take notice – if the attention to detail in their design is any indication of their overall approach to the business, they’re going to be stealing customers from you in droves.
“Stop. Pull everything together into a single stack, take a breath, and enjoy the work. We’re not tarring roofs in 100° heat. We get to build for the web, and life is wonderful.”
“We make in the hope that what we produce can carry us somewhere better, to a place more satisfactory. If we can do this for ourselves, we are lucky. When we are able to do so for others, we are tending towards glory.”
Frank Chimero
(Source: blog.frankchimero.com)
“In every kind of creative endeavor – and great technology is indeed a form of creative expression – there’s a difference between real art and mere technical competence. It’s impossible to quantify but which everybody can intuit it almost instantly.”
Andy Ihnatko, from iPad 2 release spells a bleak 2011 for other tablet makers
A better multi-select icon for iOS from tap tap tap
In “Apple’s precedents vs. Apple’s guidelines”, John Casasanta explains how they clarified the user experience for multi-select in Camera+ via a simple icon change. As a bonus, they offer the source file for the icon as well.
Behind the Scenes of the BankSimple Site Refresh
Nice write-up of the design and dev work the BankSimple team put into their updated site. Especially love how they used javascript to generate the guilloche pattern instead of a 200K PNG. Also worth noting, the money quote (pun intended) regarding the use of advanced CSS treatments: “…websites don’t need to look the same on every browser, as long as things are still functional.”
