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"Boards don't hit back"
July 15, 2011
(via Glitch Blog)
6 months ago
July 14, 2011
![“Pushing the leather buttons on the Calendar app feels very much like real leather buttons would feel: Tacky. […] If you use favor style over function to make something look like something it is not, you are not a product designer, you are an illusion artist. Leather buttons, stitches and torn paper edges, multi-screen-multi-column-pseudo-newspaper-layouts… on the screen it is just kitsch. Kitsch, as in: it tries to be something that it is not—and miserably fails at the attempt”
(via Information Architects – Designing for iPad: Reality Check)](http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lobup2jyQZ1qz4axuo1_500.png)
“Pushing the leather buttons on the Calendar app feels very much like real leather buttons would feel: Tacky. […] If you use favor style over function to make something look like something it is not, you are not a product designer, you are an illusion artist. Leather buttons, stitches and torn paper edges, multi-screen-multi-column-pseudo-newspaper-layouts… on the screen it is just kitsch. Kitsch, as in: it tries to be something that it is not—and miserably fails at the attempt”
(via Information Architects – Designing for iPad: Reality Check)
6 months ago
“ It fits the TechCrunch brand perfectly. And no, we didn’t build it in Minecraft. We used AOL Paint, which comes free on the AOL CD and has this sweet UltraLogoMatic2000 feature.
