Hello. I’m a 21 year old interface designer—from Gothenburg, Sweden—working at Spotify.
In July 2002, Appled filed a patent for a “Breathing Status LED Indicator” (No. US 6,658,577 B2). They described it as a “blinking effect of the sleep-mode indicator in accordance with the present invention mimics the rhythm of breathing which is psychologically appealing.”
I’m happy to say that Loremify 1.2 is here with an improved Header output and totally redesigned backplate. Let’s take a look at the output:
Whereas a typical old Header output would be “Morbi malesuada nulla ner purus.”, Loremify 1.2 capitalizes the first letter in every word, and leaves out the dot in the end. I saw many users who copied a header and then went through the effort to do this themselves—Loremify now does this for you. I’m aware headers aren’t written like this in all languages out there—they aren’t in Swedish—but I hope this change reflects the typical use of the Header button.
Loremify 1.2 also boasts a new backplate, to remind you about those oh-so-awesome keyboard shortcuts. This is how it looks:
Updating is super easy; after downloading the new version and launching it, Mac OS X will let you replace any old version with the new one. I hope you’ll enjoy it.
I’m thrilled to announce that on the 2nd of August, I’m joining Spotify as a designer. I’ll be working closely with the product team to develop Spotify’s user interface—the desktop client as well as mobile applications. Spotify is a joy to use, and I’m thrilled to be a part
of the team.
I’m moving to Stockholm early August. Spotify’s getting my full attention, and I will not take on any new freelance projects. As I believe you should always strive to grasp the workings of what you’re designing, I’m also picking up some real programming:
Objective-C. Let’s see where that leads to.
Spotify is still a relatively young service, and I’ve watched it develop since its early beta stages. I’m using it every day—people around me are using it every day. This is what ultimately motivates me, designing a product for myself and for the people around me. And, I’d like to think, Spotify is bringing a lot of joy into millions of peoples’ lives. If you’re using Spotify, I’d love to sit down and listen to your experiences using it.
I have some distant dreams of sharing parts of the design process over at dribbble, and engaging dribbblers’ wonderful obsession of pixels. I can’t make any promises, but hold your thumbs.
What -webkit-gradient really does is construct an image bitmap, and to the rendering engine it’s exactly the same as if you would supply and externally loaded image (like a PNG file). Images on Mobile Safari are notoriously slow (hope this will improve in 4.0!), and there’s basically nothing you can do about this– except not using images and gradients.
— Thomas Fuchs in Making an iPad HTML5 App & making it really fast
Think whatever you want of Apple’s stance on Flash for iPhone and iPad. Call it a war (it’s not). But if you greet your visitors by giving them the finger, you’re just a jackass.
You see, this is not about you. It’s not about Apple, and it’s not about Adobe. It’s about your visitors. Flash hasn’t worked on the iPhone OS since its launch—for almost three years. If you build a site and blame Steve for it not working, you’re blaming someone else for your own ignorance.
Most people probably have no idea how Flash works or why it doesn’t work on their device, and they couldn’t care less. But they’re trying to reach your site, and you’re turning them down and offending them in the process. How does that make you look?
Want your site to work? Make it work. I’m tired of hearing the “I can’t believe they’re doing this against the flash community“-bullshit. It’s not about you or some community. For whatever reasons, Apple has chosen not to include flash on some of its devices, and you’d better adapt, or your visitors are going to suffer.
I just updated Loremify with a slimmer interface and some keyboard shortcuts to make it even faster and more fun to use. It takes up approximately 30% less space than before, and the new shortcuts enable you to control all selection options without ever leaving a button.
Loremify is a one-click tool to copy Lorem Ipsum. It lets you wrap in html, specify the amount of text, and copy it to your clipboard—all in one click. You can read more about it in the original post.
Loremify runs as a Dashboard Widget on Mac OS X, is free to use, and is a mere 340kb download. I hope you enjoy it.
Thanks to everyone who tested the new version, and especially to Jannis Gundermann and Scott Plumlee for brilliant feature suggestions. If you’ve got any ideas on how to make Loremify even better, you can catch me on twitter.