Qualified?

The most annoying thing about the iOS design discussion has been the willingness of intelligent, insightful commentators to say that they are “not designers”. They think their opinion on a design can’t be as valid as actual designers in the “design community”

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Iconic

The more I look at those new iOS7 icons, the better they become. They may look “odd” to some (and downright juvenile to the more superficial commentators), but they are extremely clever and do a number of design “jobs-to-be-done” very well.

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Not Quite Good Enough

Design (both in-print and online) is usually about working up an idea until someone signs it off, and you would expect to find that it ONLY goes live when it’s being checked, proofed and approved by anyone with an interest in the thing. The technology sector is a bit different…

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The new site…

Big changes are a-foot for aTantalus and GAS Designs! In an effort to modernize and bring together several different sites for ‘the day job’, I’m making aTantalus.com the starting point for all the different design services that I’ve provided over the years…

…and we’ve set up GAS Designs as the actual design studio.

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