Adobe CS3 Icons
Adobe has released a color wheel showing the new Adobe CS3 icons. But wait, a color wheel? Yep. As it turns out, the new brand includes icons that are simply colored squares with periodic-table-of-the-elements like names; Ai for Illustrator, Ps for Photoshop, Fl for Flash.
Sure, I recognize a … ahem … whole palette of [...]
Annoyances: Creative Capitalization
In this first annoyance of what I hope will become a series (no, I’m no longer a happy elf), I’ll attack a thing that bugs me incredibly. Creative capitalization. I’m referring of course to the capitalization of parts of a word, to ones own amusement:
MicroSoft
MacroMedia
PhotoShop
FireFox
DreamWeaver
InDesign (Yes, I’m looking at you, Adobe!)
NoScope
What’s next, AppLe? Your suggestions?
Jakob’s Top 10 Movie UI Bloopers
My favourite usability guru, Jakob Nielsen, lists his top 10 movie UI mistakes:
The Hero Can Immediately Use Any UI
Time Travelers Can Use Current Designs
The 3D UI
Integration is Easy, Data Interoperates
Access Denied / Access Granted
Big Fonts
Star Trek’s Talking Computer
Remote Manipulators (Waldo Controls)
You’ve Got Mail is Always Good News
“This is Unix, It’s Easy”
As usual, I’ll have to [...]
Hard-earned Advice for Creative People
Design matters much less than you think.
Aardman Animation: Creature Comforts
In the words of my colleague Tomas, this is a must-see animation video. I concur.
Rumors On A New Future OSX Interface [Update]
I’m just now surfacing after 7 days of the flu, trying to catch up on the feed-reader. Being interested in interface design, one thing sprung out; if you’re a mac fan, you might have already read it: rumor has it that the next mac operating system, OSX, will get a new interface. The rumor elaborates [...]
Casino Royale (2006) Mini-Review
Reviews are spoilerfree but beware of comments.
Casino Royale is the newest James Bond movie. It is also the name of the first book about the secret agent, as written by his creator Ian Fleming.
Most interestingly, it is a movie that completely ignores the events of the past 20 Bond movies. It is a reboot, if you will; James Bond Begins. [...]
My Brush With Database Death
If you visited Noscope last night between 23:20 and 23:50, you’d see _anguish_ and _pain_. Well, actually you’d see the body of every entry ever written simply say @post_content@, but the former more accurately represents what I saw.
Wallpapers, Updated
The Noscope wallpaper section has been updated. It is now draped in a proper port of my Pangea design with a few tweaks here and there, and I have updated the sections to be simpler and fewer. Now, dive into wallpaper categories like “Lights”, “Illustrations”, “Photos” or the new “Generative”, which (currently) features a single [...]