Designer Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Google+ design credited to original Macintosh team member Andy Hertzfeld

by Mike Schramm (Jun 28th, 2011)

You may have heard about Google+, the hot new sharing product from Google that went official today, and it sounds cool (sounds cool, but remember how cool Wave and Buzz sounded? Let's just say we're reserving excitement so far). But one exciting thing about the new project is how cool and ...

Cool custom-made iOS device stand

by Chris Ward (Mar 19th, 2011)

Design student Andrew Kim has produced the very cool Polyply to avoid having all his iOS devices strewn around his desktop like so many expensive paperweights. Made from acrylate polymer (acrylic plastic), birch plywood and birch, it has cutouts for his iPad, iPod touch Classic, iPhone and ...

Noby Noby Boy out now on iPhone, and it's awesome

by Mike Schramm (Feb 18th, 2010)

Keita Takahashi is a strange guy. He's most known for delivering the brilliant Katamari Damacy to us on the Playstation 2, a game in which you rolled around a ball that stuck to everything in the world, growing bigger and bigger as more and more stuff collected on it. But after that early success, ...

Need a Mac or iPhone developer? TUAW job boards are here!

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Nov 3rd, 2009)

Notice anything new at TUAW? We've had our job boards up for a week now, making sure all the tape would stick when new jobs were posted, and I'm proud to say that the doors are wide open for job seekers and for those looking to fill positions. We've got a button up top that'll take you straight to ...

Ralph Lauren launches Make Your Own Rugby app

by Casey Johnston (Sep 10th, 2009)

During the existence of the iPhone, shopping has always been the domain of Safari. Browsing web-based stores could be extremely awkward, thanks to bitty drop-down menus and inadvertent "quick views" of garments that you can't seem to click out of. No longer, my fellow clotheshorses. Today, Ralph ...

Rob Janoff and how he made the Apple logo

by Mike Schramm (Mar 31st, 2009)

ZLOK has re-posted an article (originally meant for the defunct Sync Magazine) about Rob Janoff, a designer who's credited with coming up with the iconic-as-they-come Apple logo. It's actually a really short piece, but he does talk pretty candidly about where he got the idea: by buying a bag of ...

Apple designer receives honours

by Erica Sadun (Nov 17th, 2006)

British born Jonathan Ive, designer of the iMac and iPod, became a Commander in The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire today. According to a Macworld article, Ive received this honor at the Queen's New Year Honours ceremony. Ive was recently promoted to senior vice president of Industrial ...

Taco HTML v1.7.2 is Universal

by David Chartier (Jun 9th, 2006)

If Dreamweaver is a bit overkill for some web work on your desk, Taco HTML might just be the editor for you. It's a small yet feature-packed web editor with tag coloring, HTML preview, syntax checking, code snippets and more. It's my favorite editor for HTML pages or tweaking a WordPress PHP page ...

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