The Sketchbook of Susan Kare, the Artist Who Gave Computing a Human Face
Kare’s work gave the Mac a visual lexicon that was universally inviting and intuitive. Instead of thinking of each image as a tiny illustration of a real object, she aimed to design icons that were as instantly comprehensible as traffic signs. There was an ineffably disarming and safe quality about her designs. Like their self-effacing ...
Designers Are The New Drivers Of American Entrepreneurialism
As with The Designer Fund, this article by Bruce Nussbaum captures the emerging emphasis on designers as entrepreneurs. One key to entrepreneurs’ success is that they frame things differently, they connect existing dots in unique ways. via Designers Are The New Drivers Of American Entrepreneurialism | Co. Design.
Code for America’s Iconathon
Earlier this year, Jen Pahlka asked me if I wanted to be a mentor for Code for America, and of course I said yes. I’ve had the pleasure of meeting with Karla Macedo, one of this year’s fellows. They’ve put together a great idea: Code for America, in partnership with the Noun Project, is pleased ...
Mobile Design Patterns
Good collection of mobile patterns: http://mobile-patterns.com/
Fount
Fount is a browser bookmarklet that identifies any web font you select from a web page.
The d.fund
The d.fund, announced today by Enrique Allen of 500 Startups. The Designer Fund will invest in startups that are founded by designers. They’re also seeking 50 investors to contribute to the fund.
MIT Media Lab’s New Logo Has 40,000 Permutations
An algorithm can create 40,000 logo shapes in 12 different color combinations, providing the Media Lab an estimated 25 years’ worth of personalized business cards. via MIT Media Lab’s Brilliant New Logo Has 40,000 Permutations.
NoteSlate
New digital sketchbook coming in June 2011… NoteSlate is low cost tablet device with true one colour display, real paper look design, long life battery (180h !), together with very handy usage and very simple and helpful interface for pen and paper. This easy, compact and portable gadget is used anywhere you want to make ...
Citrus Pixelate Products Now Available
I had forgotten to mention that you can now purchase my Citrus Pixelate design on multiple products, including stretch canvas, laptop skins and adhesives, iPhone slim hard case and adhesive and iPod skins. Head on over to the store! We’ll be adding more designs soon as well.
iPhone Sketching Post-its
Apps-on is another great tool for sketching out your iPhone ideas. It’s true to size and shape to the iPhone 4 and comes with a dotted grid system that disappears when scanned or photocopied.
The Square Grid CSS Framework
The Square Grid is “a CSS framework for designers and developers based on 35 equal-width columns. The grid is equiped with a 28px baseline-grid for a smooth vertical rhythm. Each block (DIV) is defined with a margin of 1 square (28px) from the next block.” The files include sketch sheets for printing (PDF), design layout ...
Minimal Folio for iPad
Minimal Folio is a simple iPad app that lets you present images and video to clients or other audiences. You add images and video from the photo album area on your iPad or by transferring through iTunes. You can then rearrange or group related items into columns and of course, move between images by swiping ...
More Typefaces Coming to the Web
After designing for the web for over 15 years, it’s exciting to see more typefaces finally becoming available for the web beyond the original 7-10 web fonts, or image replacement with JS/Flash. For a quick background on how web fonts have evolved, see the excerpt below from FontFeed from November 18, 2009. The August 2007 ...
Touch Gesture Reference Guide
The Touch Gesture Reference Guide is a unique set of resources for software designers and developers working on touch-based user interfaces. The guide contains: 1) an overview of the core gestures used for most touch commands 2) how to utilize these gestures to support major user actions 3) visual representations of each gesture to use ...
The iPad Arrives
As I’m sure you know, tech and geek news has been buzzing for weeks about the arrival of the iPad and today was the day for pre-orders to arrive by UPS and for in-store purchasing. We went by the Apple Store on Stockton Street here in SF this afternoon and saw Jonathan Ive as he ...
iPad Templates and Stencils
While consumers await the arrival of the first generation iPad on April 3, designers and developers have been working on apps in anticipation. Here’s a list of free iPad templates and stencils that we’ve been using at Ideacodes to get you started: iPad Stencil for Omnigraffle by iA Contains backgrounds, title bars, buttons, selectors, and ...