Weather.com’s iOS app has really improved with a bolder, more graphical look. The background image changes depending on the weather, and the smaller icons are more clear and more attractive. Still some UX things with the app that I don’t get (and do people really care about tweets from strangers about the weather?), but it’s a big improvement.
Less sophisticated users can get confused installing bookmarklets. Bit.ly has a really nice animated visual solution to that problem.
(Source: bit.ly)
weather-specific wake up screen / audio on UNIQLO’s iOS wake up app /ht carellas
“The great scientists of Ancient Persia were also artists. Omar Khayyam was an astronomer and a poet, Ibn Sina was a medical scientist and a poet, and Shaykh-i Baha’i was a mathematician and an architect.
Today we see this less. Artists are mostly artists, and scientists are mostly scientists. And generally, our technologies derive from science. Since science aligns with the head, and art aligns with the heart, understanding the heart and the head helps us to understand our modern technologies.” … [link]
Wonderful commencement talk from Neil Gaiman to budding creatives.
Soundcloud’s mobile web layout is really nice. I was really into the opaque name of the song over the track itself and then realized it was actually the track being opaque over AFP’s cover art, but it looks great anyway.
Liking the minimalism of Svbtle, especially on the smartphone.
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CoffeeScript’s + operator is sensitive to whitespace. So string concatenation like this works fine:
squadron = ‘Red’
xWing = squadron + 5 # ‘Red5’
However, this doesn’t:
squadron = ‘Red’
xWing = squadron +5 # TypeError
— Everything is made better by Star Wars references (from Pragmatic Programmer’s CoffeeScript book)
"In 1991, he fired much of the Pixar staff, announced the new direction to the survivors, and reorganized so that the studio could pursue one animated project at a time. “I got everybody together,” Jobs said, “and I said, ‘At our heart, we really are a content company. Let’s transition out of everything else. Let’s go for it. This is why I bought into Pixar. This is why most of you are here. Let’s go for it. It’s a higher-risk strategy, but the rewards are gonna be much higher, and it’s where our hearts are.’ ” Then he and CFO Lawrence Levy went to work learning everything they could about the dynamics and economics of the animation business. If they were going to start making cartoons, they were going to do it right."
— Into The Wild: Lost Conversations From Steve Jobs’ Best Years | Fast Company
