I’ve just received an iPad as my birthday present. I’m totally stoked about it – however, I was never really part of the early-adopter scene (I much preferred to wait until the 2nd or 3rd gen to drop my cash), so this is pretty exciting and uneasy for me. I’m writing this review hopefully to [...]
I’ve always admired the Skype branding. Here’s the brand guide that they’ve released a little while ago. Aside from the pure aesthetic value, it’s quite fascinating to see the work, thoughts and process behind the design that we see everyday, and often take for granted. Skype Brand Book Here’s also a PDF version to download [...]
A little while ago I wrote about a handy web app called Readability, which reformats the often overwhelming mashup that is the web into a classy, easy-on-the-eyes newspaper-like column for reading. It turns out Readability works great on the iPhone too! Take this Ars Technica article for example: And turn it into this with Readability:
During my limited tenancy as a web designer, there were a couple constant annoyances that were like thorns on my side: Figuring out HTML / RGB color codes when developing and styling pages. Finding out the proper sizes to scale images to, depending on the nature and content of the page.
Web application Readability turns a website you’re reading from this: Into this: