As a mobile UI or UX designer, you probably remember the launch of Apple’s first iPhone as if it was yesterday. Among other things, it introduced a completely touchscreen-centered interaction to a individual’s most private and personal device. Show More Summary
The long list of innovations behind the Nokia Asha 501 doesn’t end with its standout design and bold colours, the new Asha Platform or the swipe-tastic Fastlane user interface. Nokia’s reinvention of the affordable smartphone also extends to compelling and … Continue reading ?
Box has acquired an unreleased application called Folders, designed to give iPhone and iPad users a mobile front-end interface for the cloud storage and file management and sharing service as well as for competitors Google Drive and Dropbox. Show More Summary
iPad: Mailbox, the Gmail app that's made to help you get to inbox zero, is now available for the iPad. Like its iPhone counter-part, it sports a clean design and gesture-based interface that makes flicking through email easy. Read more...
iOS: Alarm clocks and timers for the iPhone are a dime-a-dozen, but Wake combines a sharp-looking, simple look with some useful tools that make setting and customizing alarms easy. Don't be fooled by its design: Behind that interface are features that make sure you get up in the morning, too. Read more...
It was only a matter of time before Google got around to cleaning up the clumsy 3D interface of its Play Magazines app. With both Books and Music already sporting a spiffy new design, we're happy to report that its periodicals portal is now just as flat and user-friendly. Show More Summary
When Jony Ive took over the role of leadership for Apple’s Human Interface in October of last year, many speculated that the style of Apple’s design language across iOS and Mac OS X would also shift towards a flatter, more clean style. This speculation was fueled mainly by Ive’s feelings towards skeuomorphism and his minimalist […]
Microsoft has put out some images of its user interface for the Xbox One, and it's exactly what you would expect given where the Xbox 360's dashboards updates ultimately went and the company's design for Windows 8.
I don't love it or hate it; in fact, I don't know that I even have a real opinion yet. Show More Summary
Great design is a product of care and attention applied to areas that matter, resulting in a useful, understandable, and hopefully beautiful user interface. But don’t be fooled into thinking that design is left only for designers. There...Show More Summary
It seems that relying on Preview software to accurately display a PDF document is like using Apple Maps to find directions. Which is pretty stupid given Apple’s gradual retreat from sensible user interface design and any successful attempt at quality control given the generally disappointing experiences some of us are having by going directly from [...]
Google has gone from a company that approached design through cold, hard algorithms to one that's employing gorgeous, user-centric interfaces.
Here’s an Android powered pen plotter that does it all. It was built by [Ytai Ben-Tsvi] to take with him to Maker Faire. He’s the creator of IOIO, a hardware interface module designed to communicate with an Android device via USB (host or OTG are both supported). The physical hardware is simple enough. He draws […]
Awhile back, I reached out to audio designer Victor Johansson after seeing some enticing preview images of an audio solution he was developing, a design-tantalizing ceramic stereo system utilizing wireless connectivity, all contained within a vessel of smooth earthenware and warm wood. He's finally finished his project to share with us... More
Google has announced a revamping of Google Maps and it is much more than a few changes. It is a reworking of the entire Google Maps interface from the group up, designed to make Maps more intuitive for users. Advertisements also have a new look.
Experimental projects are the best way to learn and of course to work on projects that we really love. I am a huge fan and supporter of personal projects, Abduzeedo is still an experiment and side project. Rodrigo Bellao, a fellow Brazilian...Show More Summary
A weather forecast website should be designed to make gloomy weather a bit palatable. The appropriately named Forecast.io ticks most of the boxes; including the one that says – elegance. Take the first look at its interface, and I am sure you will agree with me that good design matters. Show More Summary
Turn Facebook Home into an interface that Facebook designers and engineers want to use, not merely feel obligated to use, and then they’ll have something.
Creaceed is glad to announce the release of Prizmo 2 for iPhone and iPad on the App Store worldwide. Prizmo 2 is now a universal application, with a user interface specifically designed for each device. Prizmo comes with iCloud support for work-in-progress documents, so that you can start processing a document on your iPhone on [...]Show More Summary
Over the weekend we stumbled across an incredible find, something we immediately knew would be every FIFA player’s wish. A completely redesigned FIFA user interface that is to die for! Brazilian design master Rodrigo Bellão, an expert graphics designer/illustrator by day and avid FIFA fan by night, decided that FIFA was desperately in need of a [...]Show More Summary
Translate.Ru, owned by PROMT online translator, said the release of the German localization of mobile applications. Mobile interpreters with German interface designed primarily for the market in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and other countries where they speak German. Show More Summary