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10 & 11 felt especially poignant. Oftentimes, especially in more corporate cultures, it's easy to beat oneself up for not having all of the right answers or solutions during a design critique. That's not the point, nor is it an indicator of good or bad design—or a good or bad designer for that matter. Working through design solutions quickly and soliciting feedback early and often should be a natural part of every designer's process.
Dwight Eschliman explains how Apple photographs their product. It took 54 frames just to shoot the bottom ipod in the image above. Insane.
Clear is a to-do list that uses gestural interactions for the UI. Brilliantly simple. I’m still a pen and paper kinda guy, but this was worth the $.99 to download and experience.
Just ordered Issue No. 1 of Offscreen Magazine—"a new, collectible print magazine with an in-depth look at the life and work of people that create websites and apps."
Great tips from Jon Hicks on icon design. Jon is also the author of The Icon Handbook available at Five Simple Steps.
Bluetooth speaker bar for apple devices. Back it on Kickstarter.
29 Ways to Stay Creative
Wow, from Bootstrap and Foundation to 960.gs, and now Pears—an interface pattern pairing framework for HTML & CSS—the amount of frameworks being developed to easily create and learn solid design principles is pretty amazing. Solid work by the SimpleBits team.
Love this kind of stuff. Read the full interview with Jason Gregory and other "Gentleman" on Grain & Gram, The New Gentleman's Journal.
Riusuke Fukahori paints three-dimensional goldfish embedded in layers of resin. A-maz-ing.
Vimeo gets a redesign and you can sign-up to be the first to try it out.
Insider reports Yahoo! will be killing a number of apps they have in the works and will be adopting a mobile first strategy similar to that of Google. A telling sign for what's to come in web strategy and consumer web.
Business Insider writes, "A site called Pinterest is growing like crazy and none of us are talking about it enough." Comparing 2012 to the years Tumblr, Facebook, and Twitter were launched, Business Insider links Pinterest's sign-up process to the secret of their success, and states, "Any start-up can learn from it."
Benjamin Keen created this handy little bookmarklet for testing responsive designs. It aligns each of the different views side-by-side in iframes on the same page so you don't have to keep resizing your browser. Genius.
You may also want to check out the inspiration for the bookmarklet, a simple html file to put into the root folder of your design to use while creating your site.
