ui
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Android’s Tips For Beautiful Icon Design Are The Opposite Of Google’s
Today, Android published a helpful blog post offering up a list of design tips for developers slaving away over new app icons, encouraging them to use shadows, textures and micro detail. We’re watching Android grow up into its own distinct visual identity — independent even from Google mothership.
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This Incredible Calendar App Concept Is How You Should Run Your Life
When Apple showed-off the new, flat iOS 7 at this year’s Worldwide Developer Conference, everyone laughed hardest at one simple joke: “no more stitching? How does it all stay up there?”. The death of skeuomorphic design in iOS is just the beginning: what if apps like calculators and calendars looked nothing like their real-world counterparts…
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This Could Be An Early Build Of Intel’s Mobile OS UI
Ars Technica has screenshots of what it says is Intel’s UI overlay for use on mobile handsets in the future. If real, these early shots of the skin, codenamed “Obsidian”, represent the earliest look at Intel’s vision for the Linux-backed Tizen OS, as well as for what we should be looking for on future Android…
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Analog Camera For iPhone: When Is Simple Actually Too Simple?
A little over a year ago, Realmac Software released Clear, an iOS to-do list app that made the task of keeping track of tasks easy with a beautifully simple design. Starting right now, you can check out the developer’s crack at replicating that success-by-simplicity formula with a 99c camera app.