Uber conference startign screen
from an aesthetic perspective, I loved this visualization by Julian Hrankov. I suspect that a simpler approach would be easier to mentally parse, but it’s still delicious :)
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.
