Design Thoughts
PHP to XML to inDesign. How my two hemispheres ran into each other.
Next month is the first bday of my son.
A year ago, for the occasion, I set up some kind of blog so our closest friends and family could share some thoughts before the delivery, and we always said we’d publish a book for his 1st bday, with the content of the site.
Comes in the timing [...]
Culinairement Vôtre Goes Live
This one is more for Paris based readers.
A friend of mine launched his web site, and doing that, his company also : culinairement-votre.fr.
Being a cook, he offer his services to cook for you, or to teach you how to cook.
He’s not the first, nor the last, but he might be one of the best…
Regarding the [...]
Gmail Dresses Up
A small buzz is running along the web.
Google introduced themes to its already wonderful Gmail.
Just go under the Themes tab, in the settings panel, and choose.
As usual, they worked well. 31 themes, you’ll probably find your.
They are pretty neat, and cover the whole app.
The geeky Terminal Theme, if not really easy to the eyes, will [...]
20 years doing something doesn’t make you an expert…
A few days ago, Macworld posted an article about the User Interface Design of a forthcoming third party iPhone App. Mighty Gruber posted it on Flickr, and the comments went wild.
Let’s say it, I think the design is pretty bad. Let’s say something else : some comments on the Flickr thread are plain wrong (a few are [...]
Obviously bigger
I like how the new proto theme for Firefox Mac makes the back button much bigger than the Forward one.
Obvioulsy the Back button is used so many times more…
Certainly nothing new here.
But the point is this :
There are so many things we don’t question any more…
Always challenge established concepts !
- Why did you do it [...]
Simple ? Make it simpler.
I love my new microwave oven.
You just can’t make any simpler.
2 rotating knobs. That’s all !
One for power setting, the other for timing.
Nothing else, not even a start button.
And that’s the beauty. Once you set the timer, it goes off by itself, 1 second later.
The same goes for every thnig designed.
Be it a graphic design, [...]
Why you wanna make great products
The other day I remembered I wanted to buy an album.
I usually use one of two sites : Amazon and Fnac.com (La Fnac is a big french store chain).
“Great” I think to myself, “I have a few minutes, let’s pop Safari up”.
And then came THE CHOICE.
The fragment of second where you decide who you’re gonna [...]
The Thing with Apple
Ironic: we’re getting used to being amazed by Apple technologies and designs.
But everybody seems to miss one of the true genius part of their designs : Evolution.
Every time they upgrade a product, the previous one seems ugly and old, and the new one sexy.
They change very little things, but it changes everything.
If – as I [...]