There’s a lot of talk about big data and how it will help bring in a new dawn of technology that learns and recognizes our needs before we know them ourselves. Isn’t this the truest form of empowerment that technology … Continue reading
Category Archives: Design
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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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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Following on from the thought of an Apple TV App (instead of a piece of hardware), I thought I would mock-up a very quick idea of how a news-stand type TV app grouping could work.
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Apple prides itself on the elegance and simplicity of its designs and user interfaces. Most of its products from the last 15 years have defined both the industries they compete in and the chapters on iconic design in weighty coffee … Continue reading
For more years than I care to remember, the tools and processes for design have remained pretty much the same – but the future is almost here, right now!
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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…
Continue readingBig 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.
Continue reading…to some thinking about design, technology, trees… and tea.
The day job for aTantalus involves everything from designing a quick logo to putting together finely wrought websites or sales brochures. Visit GAS Designs.co.uk to see the main studio site…
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