Category: Design
The Icon Bronco Visits Leno ⇢
I’ve linked to this truck several times in the past, and I can’t stop. I simply love this thing.
Quark DesignPad ⇢
Well, I didn’t see that coming.
Windows 8 Packaging Revealed ⇢
Great, now I have to clean vomit out of my MacBook Pro.
‘Highly Confidential’ Prototypes ⇢
Oh, mama.
Apple’s History of Skeuomorphism ⇢
Thomas Brand builds the case that Apple’s recent love of skeuomorphism isn’t all that new.
On CSS Rounded Corners ⇢
It’s a little inside baseball, but here’s how PJ got my fancy linked list arrow things working in CSS.
iPad mini Mockups ⇢
This is a nice way to see what a 7.85 inch iPad would look like, if you have a little too much time on your hands this weekend.
‘Unfixable’
Christina Bonnington at Wired:
Those who throw down more than two grand for a new MacBook Pro with Retina Display will have a hell of a time trying to fix their notebook should anything go amiss. iFixit’s latest teardown reveals the newest member of the MacBook Pro line is the “least-repairable laptop” the team has ever had to tear apart.
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So, if indeed you do splurge, you’ll want to consider your future computing needs. And maybe store it in a museum-quality vault when it’s not being used.
iFixit Tears Down Retina MacBook Pro
On iOS 6 Mockups
MacStories linked to this post over in The Verge’s forums, in which “gizmosachin” mocked up what (s)he thinks iOS 6 might look like.
All in all, I like the look. I agree with Marco that the blue default look within iOS and apps is dated. It’s time for a change, and I think the silver look used in the WWDC 2012 app is a great candidate for something new.
While I initially thought that June would be too early for an iOS 6 preview, if something as basic as UIKit is going to be updated, I expect Scott Forstall to be on stage at some point during the company’s keynote.
On TwelveSouth
Darren Murph at Engadget wrote a great feature on TwelveSouth, the maker of many popular accessories for the Mac, iPad and iPhone.
The thing that struck me the most about this article is how careful the guys at TwelveSouth are about becoming too big:
The next question must have felt obvious: “Well, what if you had the opportunity to branch out… to make accessories for companies other than Apple?”
“We’re not interested in that,” [TwelveSouth co-founder Andrew Green] said. In fact, he has been approached by the non-Apple world; designers looking for a design house, companies with earnings in the billions and even one particular CEO of one particularly important consumer electronics company. Green remains humble, but I’m aghast.