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Motorola president responds to Ive criticism in New Yorker profile, says...
In an amusing retaliation to Jony Ive’s opinion of Motorola’s Moto Maker, Motorola president described their company as a ‘different philosophy’ as well as directly attacking Apple’s product lineup,...
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Apple will fight iOS bugs with first-ever iOS Public Betas: 8.3 in March, 9...
In an effort to eliminate bugs from upcoming iOS versions ahead of their general releases, Apple plans to launch the first-ever public beta program for the iOS operating system, according to multiple...
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Adobe releases Comp CC layout-design iPad app
Adobe today released a new iPad app dubbed Comp CC that offers “rapid creation of layout concepts for mobile, Web and print projects” that can later be used in Photoshop CC, Illustrator CC and...
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Adobe Slate lets you publish magazine-like stories from your iPad without...
Adobe is out today with its latest app for content creators on the iPad. The new Adobe Slate app is available for free and joins the similar Voice app Adobe launched last May. Where Adobe Voice...
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Reeder 3 for Mac coming soon w/ redesigned interface, will be a free update
After Google Reader announced its closure, popular RSS client Reeder was forced to step back, retool, and eventually relaunch its Mac client with support for multiple RSS services. Now, Reeder is...
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Photos show Apple Watch’s clever UK plug design, and a custom strap or not …
You’ve probably seen a dozen celebrity endorsements of the Apple Watch by now ahead of its official ship date to customers in one week, but the latest photos shared by famed rugby player and captain...
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See the clever Apple Watch collapsible plug in action (Video)
Jony Ive has often said that great design solutions are always obvious in retrospect, and I think the UK plug for the Apple Watch is a great example of this. As soon as you see how it works, you...
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Review: Apple Watch as a design piece
Precision. That’s the word that immediately came to mind the minute I picked up my Apple Watch for the first time. Something about this device felt different, on an almost subconscious level, from any...
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Apple launches official ‘Made for Apple Watch’ third-party bands program
In line with our report from a couple of weeks ago, Apple has just debuted an official program for third-party accessory developers to design and launch bands for the Apple Watch. Like the MFi program...
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Apple’s Marc Newson responds to Apple Watch criticism, Apple Car reports, &...
Marc Newson, famous designer and close friend of Apple design guru Jony Ive, just gave his first solo interview since joining Apple last year. In the interview with the London Evening Standard, Newson...
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Coming at WWDC 2015: New Apple Watch SDK, Quality-focused/refreshed iOS 9 &...
Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference is about to kick off. On Monday, June 8th, company executives will take the stage at San Francisco’s Moscone Center to provide their annual roadmap for...
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Poll: What do you think of Apple’s new “Technicolor Yawn” iTunes + Music icon?
When Apple Music launches around the world on June 30th, the icon for Music on iOS and iTunes on OS X is set to change from the pinkish orange version we’ve had since iOS 7 and OS X 10.10 to one...
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Jony Ive officially moves to Chief Design Officer as Dye & Howarth are...
After announcing the change in a company-wide memo last month, Apple today has officially updated Jony Ive’s executive bio on Apple.com to reflect his new role as Chief Design Officer. Ive was...
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Opinion: After getting assimilated by the Apple Watch, I want a Digital Crown...
As regular readers will know, it took a little while for the Apple Watch to really grow on me. But even back when I wasn’t convinced I needed a smartwatch, I still had to admire the design. And the...
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U.S. Patent Office invalidates an original iPhone patent in Samsung lawsuit
Earlier this month, the United States Patent Office made a non-final ruling that one of Apple’s design patents for the original iPhone is invalid within Apple’s long-running lawsuit against Samsung,...
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Xiaomi MacBook Air lookalike rumors resurface as Bloomberg reports Samsung talks
Xiaomi – a Chinese company noted for cloning Apple’s product designs, iOS look-and-feel and even keynotes – is once more rumored to be going after the MacBook Air with its own premium-look laptop....
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Early Mac UI designers say Apple has abandoned many of its human interface...
Two of the early Mac user-interface designers argue in a lengthy FastCo piece that Apple has abandoned many of its original human interface design principles in both OS X and iOS, and a switch to an...
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Opinion: There’s a broader problem with Apple’s battery case – a...
Like many this morning, my first reaction to Apple’s Smart Battery Case was … what the heck? Albeit not expressed in those exact words. Seth tweeted that it seemed to be evidence that Jony Ive has...
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Report: Apple says it sucks at selling ads, will soon let publishers do the...
Apple’s rocky iAd advertising platform is about to see some major changes, says Buzzfeed’s John Paczkowski. According to the report, Apple plans to dismantle its iAd sales team and stop its role as a...
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How-To: Use Apple Watch faces as gorgeous Mac screen savers
Even though I’ve owned a Mac for going on 5+ years now, I never thought I would actually end up using screen savers. But the launch of Aerial a few months ago, which I’ve been using daily ever since,...
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iPhone 5se drawings: nearly identical to 5s, relocated power key + slightly...
We have been reporting since earlier this year that Apple is preparing to launch a new 4-inch iPhone called the iPhone 5se. Our sources have said that the new device is essentially the 2013 iPhone 5s...
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Purported iPhone 7 chassis pictures show redesigned antenna lines, new larger...
It is new iPhone rumor season once again: Following case leaks for Apple’s next-generation iPhone models last week, expected to debut in fall, an image purports to show technical drawings for the...
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iPhone SE design ‘identical’ to 5s with matte edges, will include 12 MP...
In January, we reported that Apple would be launching a new 4-inch iPhone in March with a design “nearly identical” to that of the iPhone 5s from 2013. Since then, several rumors and teases from...
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More Apple Campus 2 renderings emerge, show reception buildings, food stands,...
The design of Apple’s upcoming Campus 2’s main ring-style building is no secret. We’ve seen numerous images and renders of the spaceship-like building, as well as drone flyover videos to give us...
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Design Hunt for iOS gains 3D Touch support + general improvements
Daily design curation and inspiration app Design Hunt has seen a 2.1 version upgrade today focusing on improving overall performance and introducing 3D Touch features to the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus....
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Updated MacBook Air line to offer slightly faster processors, not much else
Earlier today we reported that Apple would release new MacBook Air models this week, likely tomorrow, and that the refresh would likely focus on improved Intel Haswell processors. A source has just...
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Another iPhone 6 mockup shown off in new photos, now in Space Gray
More images of an iPhone 6 mockup have recently been published via NoWhereElse. At this point, publishing these dummy models has become somewhat of a daily ritual, but they are definitely interesting...
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The secret behind Apple’s design excellence is a simple one, says former...
The secret behind Apple’s design excellence is a simple one, says former senior designer and user experience specialist Mark Kawano in an interview with Fast Company: it’s not just something left to...
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How some of your favorite Mac apps could look when OS X Yosemite launches
When OS X 10.10 Yosemite launches this fall, most of Apple’s first-party apps will look completely different. This means that many third-party apps will begin to look out of place. Zinx has compiled...
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Jony Ive on new materials, software design, Tim Cook’s leadership
Following a few quotes from a Jony Ive interview with The New York Times appearing in a longer piece about Tim Cook over the weekend, the publication has now published a longer transcript from the...
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These iPhone 6 renders show design details that physical mockups ignore...
For months, physical mockups, display components, front covers, and schematics for Apple’s upcoming iPhone 6 have leaked on the web. However, the physical reconstructions and diagrams simply do not do...
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Will Apple also update the next iPads with rounded edges? (Poll)
One of our favorite designers of Apple concepts, Martin Hajek, has put together this visual showing how a new iPad mini design might compare with the existing one if it were based on the design of the...
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Major case makers banking on leaked iPhone 6 design
For the past few months there have been a host of leaked schematics and dummies of the next-generation iPhone. While the veracity of those leaks won’t be fully confirmed until Apple shows the device...
View ArticleMuch of Tesla’s UI design team comes from Apple (Video)
Javier Verdura, Director of Product Design and Project Management for Tesla Motors pulls back the curtain on Tesla design during a recent RKS Sessions design talk. While the talk and Q&A is mostly...
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Will the iPhone 6 include a reversible USB cable? Recent Apple patent makes...
The iPhone 6’s packaging might not only include a redesigned smartphone, but a redesigned USB to Lightning cable. While it’s unlikely that Apple will yet-again change the Lightning port introduced...
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Apple successfully patents iconic glass cube design of Fifth Avenue store in NYC
A few weeks after Apple was granted a European trademark on the key design elements of its retail stores, the company has been awarded a U.S. patent on the iconic glass cube design of its Fifth Avenue...
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Apple’s design team headed to Paris Fashion Week, likely for Apple Watch event
Is that Jony Ive and Marc Newson at the top right? Update: Both relevant photos have since been removed from Instagram. Following a report earlier today that Apple and French fashion retailer Colette...
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Jony Ive takes the stage at Vanity Fair’s New Establishment Summit, talks...
Image via <a href="https://twitter.com/stevekovach/status/520360606994415617" target="_blank">Steve Kovach</a> Jony Ive appeared live today at Vanity Fair’s New Establishment Summit and...
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Concept imagines iPad refresh with iPhone 6 design (Gallery)
With Apple preparing to show off an updated lineup of iPads on Thursday, designer Martin Hajek has asked the question “What if the new iPad’s were to borrow the design language from the iPhone6/6+?”...
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Modernizing the home screen: How iOS could take cues from the design of the...
At Apple’s special press event this past September, we witnessed the introduction of several new user interface paradigms, in the form of Apple Watch. Perhaps one of the most interesting was Apple...
View ArticleJony Ive outlines his three key tips for designers in talk at London’s Design...
UX designer Joseph Shaffery shared some quotes from a talk Apple’s design head Jony Ive gave (another account) to an audience of designers last night at London’s Design Museum – together with his take...
View ArticleThis $80 mobile app prototyping software for Mac is now free courtesy of...
Google just bought RelativeWave, the company behind the mobile app prototyping software Form, and with the purchase it’s making the previously $80 Mac app available for free on the Mac App Store. The...
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Chinese smartphone maker claims Apple copied iPhone 6 design
Chinese smartphone maker Digione is claiming Apple’s iPhone 6 and 6 Plus copy the design of its own smartphone line. Macworld reports that the company published a letter online yesterday that was...
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Gorgeous neo-retro Mac Neue redesigns original Apple Mac as thin, metal...
Beautiful renderings from German site Curved/labs depict a stunning metallic ode to Apple’s original Macintosh computer. While acknowledging the enhanced functionality of Apple’s latest computers,...
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Touching the dial: How iTunes Radio could be tuned for a better user experience
iTunes Radio, Apple’s first real foray into streaming music, made its public debut back in June 2013, where it was announced alongside iOS 7. Over a year since its release, the service hasn’t exactly...
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Apple threatens to ban iPhone, iPad accessory makers that design based on leaks
Apple is working to step up the secrecy surrounding future iPhone and iPad models by targeting a frequent source of leaks: third-party accessory makers. 9to5Mac has learned that in fall 2014, just...
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The New Yorker profiles Jony Ive: details meeting Jobs, iPhone 6, Apple...
The New Yorker has published an extensive profile on Jony Ive, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Design. Many newspapers have written up articles on Ive in recent years, but this latest account by Ian...
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111 designers including Dieter Rams & Calvin Klein back Apple in Supreme...
The United States Supreme Court is set to take on Samsung’s appeal over Apple’s design patent case in two months, and today Apple has submitted an amicus brief with support from 111 famed designers...
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Apple News Format updated with new HTML list stylings and a new Design Tutorial
Apple has announced a new update to their Apple News Format, which is used by publishers on the Apple News platform. The update today includes list item stylings for HTML formats within posts, and a...
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Pinterest rolling out new point-and-shoot visual discovery tool for mobile...
Pinterest is introducing a new feature for its iOS app called Lens. Rolling out now as a beta feature, Lens lets you point your camera at your surroundings to discover new design ideas based on what...
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