Hello. I’m a 23 year old interface designer—from Gothenburg, Sweden—working at Spotify.
Clever, open-sourced, iOS component from Matt Gemmel:
It’s designed for iOS 5, and uses ARC. It supports Retina and non-Retina devices, and works with VoiceOver. MGTileMenu is designed for use on iPad, but it will also work on iPhone and iPod touch.
“Shells apps promise to let you share a single implementation across several platforms. In practice, they trade several straightforward implementations for a single complex implementation.”
— Benjamin Sandofsky, in Shell Apps and Silver Bullets
Great site and work by Dave Spengeler — “Holding up a mirror to the artsy community.”
Joshua Porter’s Principles of User Interface Design:
Interfaces exist to enable interaction between humans and our world. They can help clarify, illuminate, enable, show relationships, bring us together, pull us apart, manage our expectations, and give us access to services. The act of designing interfaces is not art and they are not monuments unto themselves. Interfaces do a job and their effectiveness can be measured. They are not just utilitarian, however. The best interfaces can inspire, evoke, mystify, and intensify our relationship with the world.
Great read, and spot on in most cases.
People aren’t very good at media multitasking – like reading a book while watching TV – but do it anyway because it makes them feel good, a new study suggests.
— Jeff Grabmeier, in Multitasking May Hurt Your Performance, But It Makes You Feel Better