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Eight iOS 7 Flat UI Mockups: Is This What Your Next iPhone Will Look Like?

With Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference just a month a way, rumours continue to surface that iOS 7 could see a major UI overhaul. Word on the street is that Jony Ive and his team at Apple are going for a very “flat” look. Since then, many designers have put together some interesting mockups and concepts together speculating on how a flat iOS 7 might look. Some are a bit radical, others seem more realistic. Here are a few of our favourites.

8 May 2013

Online

Is This The New Google Maps?

Google is supposedly working on a redesign of Google Maps that’ll kill the all familiar sidebar and replace it with a full screen map. It’s a cleaner look that already makes the current constricted layout seem dated.

4 May 2013

Science

Motion Control Is Awesome For Surgeons (Or Anyone With Bloody Hands)

High-fidelity motion control is awesome, but it’s not quite essential for most of us. For surgeons though, a motion-controlled interface like this one could be super useful.

30 April 2013

Mobile

Report: There’s Going To Be A Lot Of Jony Ive In iOS 7

With Jony Ive in the driver’s seat for iOS 7, the scent of change is on the breeze. Change itself is inevitable, it’s just a question of how much. According to 9to5Mac’s sources, the answer to that question is “a lot”.

23 April 2013

Software

Report: The Start Button Is Coming Back To Windows

If you’ve been pining for the Start button since Windows 8 arrived on the scene, we have some potentially good news. Sources who have spoken to The Verge claim that it will reappear in Windows 8.1.

18 April 2013

Computing

Pinch To Zoom Is Literal On This Elastic Touchscreen Display

We spend a lot of our time running our greasy little fingers over all kinds of touchscreens, but they just sit there unmoving as untouchable blocks of colours dart around beneath the surface. The Obake display isn’t quite so lifeless, and it’s just begging to be poked and prodded.

Software

How To Make An iOS App Icon That Works

I’ve made my fair share of apps, and to me the one question that still bounces around my head is: When taking an app-first approach to designing a product, how should a designer decide on the look and feel of the icon? There are many different icon types I’ve considered, but I wanted to explore a few of the more pervasive methods I’ve come across.

17 April 2013

Online

Why This Simple Government Website Was Named Best Design Of The Year

When was the last time you tried to find a government form on the internet? The labyrinth of independent sites you have to visit before finding what you’re looking for is amazing. Bringing the web presence of an entire government under one roof is a Sisyphean task, and the UK has done it with with Gov.uk, a one-stop web shop that launched earlier this year.

Software

Google Experiments With A New Launcher And Ditching The Black Bar

There’s a new, cleaner Google web interface being tested right now. It does away with the black bar in favour of nicking the Chrome OS and Android grid icon and using it to populate a nice little white dropdown menu.

13 April 2013

Software

A Brief History Of The Google Maps Pegman

You might not think of him very often, but you know the Google Maps pegman quite well. Every time you zoom down into a new, strange locale, he’s there, pointing the way. But where did he come from? Buzzfeed FWD dug into the history, and it turns out there’s a lot more of it than you’d think.

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