Friday, April 30, 2010

Designing for the iPhone and iPad - A Collection of Pre-Built GUI Kits



 
If you are developing interfaces for the iPhone or iPad and are looking for pre-build GUI resources, check out this comprehensive collection from Speckyboy:

Thursday, April 22, 2010

2010 Logo Trends

Beautiful collection of logos grouped by trend:



Read more (hat tip to Jeff):

New AddThis Gallery Examples


Today we released some new examples of fun menus created using AddThis APIs.  The menu above animates as the user rolls over the different sharing icons, and locks itself to the bottom of the page.

Check it out: Code | Demo

    Here's another example that places itself in the bottom right corner of the page, in a fixed position, and launches a stack of sharing icons:

    You can find out more about this implementation here: CodeDemo

      We also released a version of a sharing menu that maintains a fixed position in the top left corner of the screen.

      These examples and others in the AddThis Gallery were developed to help publishers understand just how completely customizable the AddThis sharing platform is – we hope you grab these, make them your own, or come up with other amazing ideas. We'd love to hear from you.

      Ed: Big hat tips to Jeff and Foo for all the hard work on these!

      Where do Apple, Microsoft and Google make their money?

      True, it's not user experience, but it's awfully interesting. Here is a look at several very large Internet companies, and where their revenues come from. Note how little money Apple makes from software, and what an opportunity Google has going after Microsoft's Office business with online apps. 








      For more details, check out the original articles from the Silicon Valley Insider:

      Fonts for iPad & iPhone

      Handy reference link:

      Fonts for iPad & iPhone | Michael Critz

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      Monday, April 19, 2010

      Tuesday, April 13, 2010

      Designing for iPad: Reality Check


      Are you designing apps for Apple's iPad? Check out this blog post from Information Architects.jp.  They dig into typography, interaction design, the iPad's 3-dimensional elements and much more.

      They also include a ton of interesting insights into what worked for them, what didn't, and some of the ways they experimented to get their UX right. Definitely worth checking out:

      Thursday, April 8, 2010

      Mobile Interface Development Tools for Android, iPhone, iPad, Palm Pre


      This is a great collection of on and offline tools for developing interfaces for mobile devices, including a Photoshop file for iPad applications. Enjoy!

      Mobile Interface Development: Ultimate GUI Toolbox for Android, iPhone, iPad, Palm Pre | Coding | PelFusion.com

      hat tip: InspiredMag and PelFusion.com

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