A Word About Unsolicited Redesigns
Khoi Vinh, former design director for NYTimes.com:
Unsolicited redesigns are terrific and fun and useful, and I hope designers never stop doing them. But as they do so, I also hope they remember it helps no one — least of all the author of the redesign — to assume the worst about the original source and the people who work hard to maintain and improve it, even though those efforts may seem imperfect from the outside. If you have good ideas and the talent to execute them and argue for them, the world will still sit up and pay attention even if you take care in your language and show respect to those who don’t see things quite the way you do.
Consider this my public apology for so quickly embracing one side of the argument and failing to contemplate the other.
Update: Some of you are suggesting I shouldn’t apologize. Aside from that being a matter of my own choosing, I believe we sell ourselves short if we consider only one side of an argument, especially in matters of design and UX. I’m fortunate to know both Khoi and Andy quite well, and to fail to consider both their opinions — very experienced opinions, at that — would not be fair to them nor to myself.
“Introducing Final Cut Pro X”
- Apple: Here's Final Cut Pro X.
- Editors: This is an outrage. Where is EDL? Where is OMF?! What have you done with XML?!
- Apple: Shut up, nerds. Here it is. It's the future.
- Editors: So help me God, I will switch to Adobe Premiere.
- Apple: You do that.
- Editors: That's it. I'm switching now. I am NOT TO BE TRIFLED WITH.
- Apple: Enjoy.
- Editors: Here I go. Adobe Premiere. Here I go.
- Apple: Steve Jobs!
- THE END
The poster/s and trailer for Spielberg/Jackson juggernaut The Adventures of Tintin (co-penned by Edgar Wright!) are out. Best comment: “Filmed on location in the Uncanny Valley.” (via Jason Kottke)
I can’t wait to see this movie… even if it turns out to be bad! :)
Cameron Moll / Designer, Speaker, Author: Coming Soon: Brief, a WooThemes Template
I’ve handed over several PSDs to the crew at WooThemes, a leading source for customizable WordPress themes. I’m quite pleased with how my WordPress template, which I’ve called Brief, turned out. It’s now up to their exceptional front-end team to turn my designs into markup and make adjustments…
I absolutely love the design. Perfect for displaying large photos and images! One thing I’m quite curious about is how text posts will be displayed. I think most people interested in using a theme like Brief will probably write a little bit about their work or inspiration, and the single biggest problem I’ve ran into with Tumblr and Wordpress themes is that text columns are usually uncomfortably wide or small.
Tim Morgan's thoughts that are too big for Twitter: The failures of the Mac App Store's UI, and that of its app, Twitter 2.0
I’m astounded that there hasn’t been a peep from Gruber about the problems and inconsistencies in the Mac App Store application, and those of the apps sold on it. My first experience with the Mac App Store was a purchase of the new Twitter app, of which Gruber had this to say:
My new…
Terry White’s top-5 favourite Illustrator CS5 features… which coincidentally are also my personal top-5 new features. If I was an illustrator instead of a designer, this would definately make me paint in Illustrator just for the scalability that you’ll have in the end! ;)
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The best html+css3 “404”-page I have ever seen. Pure bliss, and it beats a static image anytime.
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Does anyone know what speakers are in this picture? They look like they give a good ‘oomph’ of a sound :)
Finally found the proper icon and name for my main drive. It doesn’t speak to me yet though.
Can I have one of those on the go please? Could you link that one for the fans? “No David, where are you going David”
Famous superstar parrot (via rblblbl)
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Off to the Kröller-Müller Museum. Final destination: Amsterdam, where there will be a celebration of my reluctant journey toward my mid-twenties.
Welcome to Holland then! Don’t forget to visit the Euromast… as corny as it sounds, it has the best view in Holland if you ask me ;)
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