Impressions on the Apple 9/9 event — a numbered list
In a nutshell, great event, and exciting new things.
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A few quick notes on NetNewsWire 4
Underwhelming overall.
→ Art of the Title: The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
While finally catching up with a lot of unread RSS feeds after the summer holiday, I was quite happy to see that one of my favourite sites, Art of the Title, has covered one of my favourite Steve McQueen’s movies, The Thomas Crown Affair. The Art of the Title’s article focuses on the multi-screen technique of designer Pablo Ferro, who created the movie’s opening titles and some key montages within the movie. So impressed […]
→ The Web bloat
Maciej Cegłowski, in Web Design: The First 100 Years: A further symptom of our exponential hangover is bloat. As soon as a system shows signs of performance, developers will add enough abstraction to make it borderline unusable. Software forever remains at the limits of what people will put up with. Developers and designers together create overweight systems in hopes that the hardware will catch up in time and cover their mistakes. We complained for years […]
Some iOS photo apps with nice user interfaces
I've always had a soft spot for photo apps on iOS. Lately I'm using a few of them whose common denominator is a generally well-designed UI.