Click a cheerio for the full visual guide by Ed Lea
I’m as guilty as the next user, consumer, and novice to the world of programming. Without someone to tell us what is what, we easily get user experience and user interface confused.
Thanks, Ed Lea, for clearing things up for me with the UI/UX of a bowl of cereal. Thanks to Design.org for sharing.
I bet you couldn’t have guessed this. Mathieu Schatzler on the Behance network shared with the world how iMacs are really put together.
Choose any of these thumbnails to see the details better:
I just knew there was something magical to them after all. This is proof, guys. Thanks, Mathieu, for going to all the trouble to show the world what’s really behind the scenes at Foxconn.
The app developers at Mind Diaper (that’s not a joke) have released a nifty little video camera app for the iPhone 4S technology.
Besides the ability to record, there are customizable film rates, “lens” filters (sorta like Instagram’s) aspect ratio controls, and more to make CinePro new and different from other iOS camera apps.
But the apps marketing is flaud. CinePro is pitched as follows:
“The best camera in the world is the one you have with you”
…I’m with their selling points so far.
CinePro started with the belief that everyone is a filmmaker…
Losing me now…
…Our goal was to create a tool that was powerful enough for professional filmmakers and friendly enough for anyone with a passion for capturing life’s best moments.
Our dream is to see the Cinepro community capture everything from full length features to birthday parties. CinePro »
Sorry. No-can-do, Mind Diaper. Apps are better suited for one of two users. Think of The Big Bang Theory characters; Penny and Sheldon most certainly would not want to use the same camera app. Penny would use iOS’s built-in camera, and Sheldon would be turned off by any app that attempts to make pros and consumers happy at the same time.
Pros want something powerful. Consumers want something lazy and pretty. Realistic speaking, there isn’t an in-between.
“Pro-sumer” types get tired of trying to tread the fine line very quickly. They try an app that tries to appeal to both, then when it proves there are too many compromises to make consumers happy, the “pro” in you gives up using the app. And the consumer within you gives up when the app proves to be too technical.
My recommendation would be to make two apps under the same name, of sorts. Call one CineMo and the other CinePro, or something like that. Cater to the user’s interests and goals—not to your daydreams of nerdom.
And don’t misunderstand me. The app is probably got its good features, and I intend to give it a test drive. I want a more powerful camera. But let’s be honest: everyday users want fewer features. Pros want the power tools. Not everyone is a geek that uses an iPhone to take videos and snapshots.
Click Nick Fury’s eyepatch to see the gallery for The Avengers UI designs
Stills from The Avengers showcasing some of the User Interfaces that Jayse Hansen designed for the glass screens on the Helicarier and the visuals Tony Stark had in his new and upgraded Iron Man suit. Shawn Blanc »
Thanks, Shawn, for sharing these. Fabulous job, Jayse.
Designers, don’t drool too much. It is unbecoming.
See the trailer here on Apple’s website.
I was disappointed in the last Bond film. This film looks promising. I’m cautiously optimistic since Sam Mendes is directing.
Suggestion: if I was the filmmakers, I would retire Judy Dench’s character in this film. I would give her a graceful and worthy exit by choice, one that the character, M, deserves after 50 years of active service to the MI6 Secret Service.
Daniel Craig is showing his age too, but what’s to be done about that? You only live forever.
I always look forward to the Pixar short films as much as their full-length feature film releases.
“La Luna” is the timeless fable of a young boy who is coming of age in the most peculiar of circumstances. Tonight is the very first time his Papa and Grandpa are taking him to work. In an old wooden boat they row out to sea, and with no land in sight, they stop and wait. A big surprise awaits the little boy as he discovers his family’s most unusual line of work. Should he follow the example of his Papa, or his Grandpa? Will he be able to find his own way in the midst of their conflicting opinions and timeworn traditions? Pixar »
It would seem based on Pixar’s description of La Luna that the story’s message echoes similar values presented in Brave. I don’t expect anything ‘epic’ out of their short films; rather, they are an antidote to overside films. It’s great to watch what they can do in a creative story in so little time on screen.
We can expect to see La Luna for the first time in theaters along with showings of Brave.
The Google homepage for a day. Yes, you can actually play it and record your music.
This is my favorite Google homepage gimmick to date. Check out my short recorded tune on the player here while it lasts.
It’s actually a good representation of the logo too, although the L and the E are lost in the wiring and recorder.
If you haven’t figured out how to record your own music, press the record button, then, play a song, and hit the stop button. Then you can play it back, and copy the short link to your recording by clicking the chain link button at the bottom of the recorder.
Filming the flying De Lorean
Great Scott! I’ve never seen these production photos before. Click the photo to see the rest of the production photos from the eighties on Bit Rebel.
One of my all-time favorite subjects: a flying time-travelling De Lorean. The photos got me ready to check the films out on my new HD television.
Jeffrey Zeldman himself is a product wrought with an extra dose of quirkiness. All the same, I still see his objectivity. These are his own words about his recent significant redirection for the interface of his site.
This is Zeldman.com’s new look; very accommodating for high pixel density displays.
This redesign is a response to ebooks, to web type, to mobile, and to wonderful applications like Instapaper and Readability that address the problem of most websites’ pointlessly cluttered interfaces and content-hostile text layouts by actually removing the designer from the equation. (That’s not all these apps do, but it’s one benefit of using them, and it indicates how pathetic much of our web design is when our visitors increasingly turn to third party applications simply to read our sites’ content. It also suggests that those who don’t design for readers might soon not be designing for anyone.)
It’s nice to see another designer come to grips with some of the web’s recently spawned realities. It’s also great to see him do whatever he so choses, and make the site his own.
It’s not that Zeldman disregards web standards, or what most consider ‘readable.’ He just doesn’t think it’s right for all situations; particularly his own brand. The site is a significant departure from what you typically see online today. The new Zeldman.com says, “I am what I am, and I don’t plan to be otherwise.” I like that. Individuality is hard to come by.
If this were a client site, I wouldn’t push the boundaries this far. If this were a client site, I’d worry that maybe a third of the initial responses to the redesign were negative. Hell, let’s get real: if this were a client site, I wouldn’t have removed as much secondary functionality and I certainly wouldn’t have set the type this big. But this is my personal site. There are many like it, but this one is mine. And on this one, I get to try designs that are idea-driven and make statements. On this one, I get to flounder and occasionally flop. If this design turns out to be a hideous mistake, I’ll probably eventually realize that and change it. (It’s going to change eventually, anyway. This is the web. No design is for the ages, not even Douglas Bowman’s great Minima.)
But for right now, I don’t think this design is a mistake. I think it is a harbinger. We can’t keep designing as we used to if we want people to engage with our content. We can’t keep charging for ads that our layouts train readers to ignore. We can’t focus so much on technology that we forget the web is often, and quite gloriously, a transaction between reader and writer. »
If you enjoyed this entry, and Zeldman’s thoughts in general, you may also appreciate his free e-book, Taking Your Talent to the Web.
The product of Angry Birds vs Zombies. Check it out on Dribble.com.
