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Earlier today I tweeted a link to Andy Rutledge's latest entry, "Web Design is Product Design" which, in the first line, offended at least 50 of my followers on Twitter:

A designer who does not write markup and CSS is not designing for the web, but drawing pictures.

The reason I know that this stirred up controversy

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(This is a guest post by my friend Nick Paulson @nckplsn who is a Cocoa Developer working on various cool things including CloudApp.)

As a developer, I want to keep my applications safe from piracy. Itʼs always a predicament to find a solution that will not bother your real customers. We are going to look into some co

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A design can be wrong. The entire thing can be wrong, parts can be wrong, or even a tiny, 10x10 pixel area can be wrong. Not, "I think it's good but it needs improvement" but flat-out wrong. 1 + 1 = 3 wrong. A spelling mistake in a book wrong. A syntax error in a code file wrong. It's not an opinion, it's not a matter

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Your app has too many settings, too many things to tweak. API endpoints? Colors of the rainbow? 100 different fonts and font sizes? Temperature in Kelvin? Switch the app to use Esperanto?

Kill the settings, kill them all.

Your Vision Is Your Software

You're the developer, build what you want. Your app should be an e

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Digital Post, my newspaper app for the iPad, uses a number of custom user interface elements to build out the full user experience. One of these custom components is a horizontal topic selector that you can swipe and also tap to select individual topics.

Original Concept

Facebook for iPhone was one of the first apps

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The underlying secret to beautiful user interface design is realism: making 2D objects on your screen appear to sit in 3D space with volume, surface properties and undulations that might appear in real life. These faux 3D objects have highlights and shadows just like objects on your desk might have, and they have textu

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Beak was an experiment, a way for me to do something new and be proud of it. It was my first application for the Mac and my first time using Cocoa. I never took C in college, I had to learn the Cocoa APIs, Objective-C, and C all at the same time. It was, and still is, a great adventure, and the adventure is just gettin

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Design by Chris Messina

One of the largest remaining questions about the Apple slate device (aka, the iTablet, Mac touch, or my favorite, the iPod maxi) is its operating system. Why? Because the iPhone's main selling point is the App Store and last I checked, apps listed in the App Store only run on the iPhone OS. So

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Update: Changed the blog entry title to reduce confusion.

The iPhone is one big constraint — no keyboard, small screen, few buttons — so designing applications for the iPhone is an exercise in building smart, simple software. Bloated apps on the iPhone? You won't find many. Most applications pick one featu

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This morning a good conversation broke out in Twitter, which is not the best medium for real-time conversation, but hey we take what we get. It was concerning this article where Lukas Mathis said that for people who design user experiences, knowing how to code is detrimental to your ability to produce quality, user-cen

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