- Interface hierarchy
- Pixel-perfection
- Subtlety & realism
- Make it look expensive
- Create a visual language

"Googie architecture is a form of modern architecture, a subdivision of futurist architecture influenced by car culture and the Space and Atomic Ages. [...] Features of Googie include upswept roofs, curvaceous, geometric shapes, and bold use of glass, steel and neon. Googie was also characterized by Space Age designs depicting motion, such as boomerangs, flying saucers, atoms and parabolas, and free-form designs such as "soft" parallelograms and an artist's palette motif."

It's that Jetsons-American-Graffiti-Jack-Rabbit-Slim's look.

Great notes on a great talk.

"When something looks "off" in an interface, it probably looks fake, like it wouldn't exist in the real world."

"This is one of the best resources of iOS designers"

— via @willw

Nice roundup of icons.

"COLOURlovers is a creative community where people from around the world create
and share colors, palettes and patterns."

It's #4a525a.

- Fit is paramount.
- Access trumps ownership.
- Matter matters. If things take a physical form, it must fill a need.
- If there’s a choice, tend toward beauty, both in aesthetics and utility. If it’s one or the other, tend toward utility.
- Optimize for steadfastness.

"If you meet a person who cares about the same obscure things you do, hold on to them for dear life. Sympathy is medicine. Scissors are good, music is better, and mixed drinks with friends are best. Start brave and brash: you can always make things more conservative, but it’s hard to make things more radical."

"Tips are easy. And shallow. Principles, though, now that’s something worth talking about. If tips are puddles, principles can be oceans."

"The site or app speaks in the first person plural “we”. (In general, “I” takes you to that creepy HAL 9000 place. It’s the uncanny pronoun. Avoid.) The interface addresses the reader as “you”, or by name."

Part 1 in a series of 4 about visual culture, consumption, and nourishment.

"Having small touches of colour makes it more colourful than having the whole thing in colour."

0to255 is a simple tool that helps web designers find variations of any color.

"Fitts' law dictates the Macintosh pull-down menu acquisition should be approximately five times faster than Windows menu acquisition, and this is proven out."

"When you finish reading a section, I encourage you to click the little box in the bottom right to mark it as read, tracking your progress in the article."

"Most graphical elements you see on your screen are meant to stand for ideas or concepts. The little house on your desktop isn’t a little house, it’s «home».

Examples of good websites for iPhone apps