iOS Mail - The icons represent instructions on how to fold a paper airplane.
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"The trouble begins with a design philosophy that equates “more options” with “greater freedom.” Designers struggle endlessly with a problem that is almost nonexistent for users: “How do we pack the maximum number of options into the minimum space and price?” In my experience, the instruments and tools that endure (because they are loved by their users) have limited options."
Brian Eno, “The Revenge of the Intuitive,” (13 years ago!)
Even though this came out 13 years ago, this stuff was fairly obvious to anyone who followed Steve Jobs’s thoughts on the topic; he was saying this same thing about 30 years ago.
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Apple user Andrew Kim makes an awesome case for re-branding Microsoft in the new age.
Go here for more pictures and details.
I keep my OS X dock on the left side of the screen so this won’t really mean much to me long-term, but the new dock design in Mountain Lion is much nicer. I played around with it for a bit on my MacBook Air, and one nice change is even though it still reflects things on the screen like a jackass, the effect is far subtler.
Agreed. It is much nicer — though I too am a left-edge dock kind of guy.
