1. At Google I/O 2013, Google’s Rachel Garb & Helena Roeber presented on Android’s Design Principles. (tl;dr Enchant, Simplify, Amaze).

    While I’m very familiar with Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines, I came to realize that I knew next to nothing about Android’s design principles (except for how much I hate having to design for Android’s fragmented ecosystem of software and screen sizes).

    This presentation is pretty good, and definitely worth your time to watch – especially when you see the opening shot of Garb & Roeber behind a Macbook Pro with an Android sticker over the Apple logo. :-)

  2. An unexpected helicopter.

  3. It’s a #scotch outside kind of night.

  4. Sweet-ass whip, dawg. #stretch #custom

  5. Jony Ive on Tail Wagging

    One of the things that really irritates me in products is when I’m aware of designers wagging their tails in my face.

    Here, here.

    Matt Gemmell has much more at the link above, and it’s most definitely worth your time if you care about design.

  6. What a fun track from 2007.

    You know, the lost decade.

    (Source: Spotify)

  7. Damn, I miss DFW.

  8. The future of Adobe Fireworks

    I’ve only accidentally opened Fireworks, so I’m not at all surprised to see it get the chop with Adobe’s move to Creative Cloud. 

    Does this mean that Photoshop will get PNG32 support now?

  9. Adobe: There Will Be No Creative Suite 7

    I knew that the Adobe focus group I participated in was going to use the results to eventually kill off CS - I just had no idea it would be so soon.

    I hope that, at the very least, I had a little something to do with Creative Suite’s demise.

    fastcodesign:

    Many design firms buy the new Adobe Creative Suite whenever it comes out. After all, the software is a mainstay for anyone who creates on computers. But today, Adobe has announced that there will be no Creative Suite 7. That’s because the Creative Suite is giving way to the Creative Cloud—a subscription-based model in which you pay for access to Adobe’s software monthly. And as it appears, their famous individual products that traditionally make up Creative Suite, like Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign won’t be available for individual purchase, either.

    More info

  10. What a fun track.

    (Source: Spotify)