design

To icon or not to icon

Pretty comprehensive writeup about the use of icons from the makers of iA Writer, one of the App Store's most popular overpriced minimalist writing apps. The long and short of it:

Production design of High-Rise

This looks very cool. I tend to get pretty excited about JG Ballard movies in general — they turn out better than most Philip K Dick adaptations — and High-Rise looks pretty promising. These designs

Desktop Neo

From a 21-year-old design student at Potsdam. It's not 100% practical. But the idea that revolution (or even evolution) in desktop operating system UIs is going to come not from Apple

Sketch leaves app store

I haven't really noticed the downside of Sketch on the Mac App Store — except for the reason that I don't have the App Store version. Bohemian couldn't

What are we makin' doodles with?

Khoi Vinh [published the results](http://tools.subtraction.com/index.html) of a pretty interesting survey on the tools that designers are using in various disciplines of website and software creation. No surprises