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 ...
Turntable DIY Prototype
I do wish this turntable was made out of biodegradable foam, but nonetheless, I appreciate the minimal design aesthetic and the low-cost, do-it-yourself approach.
Sketch Templates and Stencils for UI design
Good collection of printable sketch templates for wireframing at Geekchix.org. Particularly love the UI Stencils.
Sunday Print Inspiration
Having a mellow Sunday with lots of new design magazines and some homemade broccoli and roasted red pepper soup.
Iconic Icon Set
Iconic is a minimal set of icons consisting of 84 marks in raster and vector formats — free for public use.
Mockingbird: Wireframes on the Fly
As a UI/UX designer, I’m constantly looking for new tools and methods to allow me to more rapidly create initial user flows and to prototype an application. Mockingbird is a new online tool that let’s you create and share wireframes quickly and with interactivity. It uses a simple drag and drop UI library, gives you ...
UI Experiments by Andrey Yazev
Randomly came across these great experiments by Andrey Yazev of 389.com. Fluid scrollbars: try it for yourself here (you’ll have to be on Safari 4 or Google Chrome to see it).
Red Pixelate: iPhone Adhesive Design
Red Pixelate is the second design in my pixelate series. This time, it’s specifically designed to scale for an iPhone. I’m still working on the design scaled for a laptop. Just got work that Red Pixelate is now up for voting at Infectious for the next 12 days. Products are made based on votes and ...
Thirty Conversations on Design
Thirty Conversations on Design 30 of the world’s most inspired creatives answer two straightforward yet incredibly complex questions: “What single example of design inspires you most?” and “What problem should design solve next?” Via Brain Pickings on PicoCool
Citrus Pixelate: Vote for My Design at Infectious
Citrus Pixelate, my laptop adhesive design for Infectious I first heard about Infectious when I went to an event at IDEO in 2008 when my company, Ideacodes, had just started working with them on their new website. Infectious had a car displayed out front covered with decals by Dalek, one of my favorite artists. I ...
Honda U3-X Personal Mobility Concept
Honda is literally reinventing the wheel with its new concept, the U3-X Personal Mobility Concept, an experimental personal mobility device that provides 360 degree movement. The concept relies on technologies derived while working on the ASIMO humanoid robot, which I’ve mentioned before. When walking, we perform forward, backward, side-to-side, and diagonal movements, the latter of ...
Origami Tea Packaging
Directed by artist Natalia Ponomareva from Russia, here is an amazing project with packaging of tea bags produced under the principles of origami. The bird forms and unfolds gradually while the tea infuses. Elegant and subtle. Via PicoCool
The Browsable Grid
Several sites, including my own PicoCool, are taking advantage of the grid view as a fast way for users to browse content. Designers have been relying on the grid for generations as a layout technique. Lots of data-driven sites (eg. product comparisons or search results), web 2.0 services and blogs let users toggle their view ...
Emily Chang Invited to Judge the HOW Interactive Design Award
Ideacodes co-founder Emily Chang is one of three judges for HOW Magazine’s 11th Annual Interactive Design Awards. Entries range across media – web, DVD, motion, kiosks – and disciplines, and will be judged on communication/message, navigation/usability, visual design and technical strength. Fellow judges include Liz Danzico, co-founder and Chair of the new MFA in Interaction ...
Helveticize Your Web
It’s been fun to see new scripts and themes developed to “Helveticize” the web, starting with Google Reader, then Google Calendar, Gmail, and now Twitter. If you’re a Helvetica lover, you’re in luck. Get rid of multiple fonts and cluttered interfaces and give your apps a minimalist makeover. It is just a visual makeover, though, ...
OneLessDesk
I’m so excited to have bought the OneLessDesk just now, in red! I posted the OneLessDesk by Heckler Design in PicoCool a while back and it’s often crept up in my mind (side note, look for the PicoCool logo at the bottom of their page. That was a nice surprise :). When we first moved ...
QLOCKTWO For the Wall and the iPhone
Naturally, I’m drawn to the minimalism of the QLOCKTWO, a physical clock ($1,268.20 USD) and an iPhone/iPod Touch app ($.99, iTunes link). But I also love the human quality – why not tell the time in words? This is QLOCKTWO, the fourth dimension squared. A clock that tells time in words. It has a quadratic ...