They [Apple] sell you an experience and the more immersed you are in that experience, and the less choices you have to make, the more you can simply focus on what you need to get done.
— Perfectly summarized and enough said.
via Minimal Mac
Minimal Mac home screen
I love Patrick Rhone’s experiment to remove everything from his home screen and only move it over if he accesses it within a week. What I find amazing about his home screen, and those listed on First & 20 is how few people have the iPod icon on their dock. I use my iPod functionality daily. It looks like there are a lot of people who don’t use the iPod functionality enough to keep it in the default location. I wonder how this fact will affect Apple iPhone development in the future.
I plan on repurposing my double tap home button to bring up search and see if that works better for me. Though I have to say I am a visual person and most of the apps I have purchased have beautiful icons. Plus, I have muscle memory programmed where to tap for my most used apps. I’ll let you know how it turns out.
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
The greatest technology contributions that Apple has ever made are the ones that are so obvious they are often overlooked.
So true. That is what I love about Apple. They sit back, observe and then make very deliberate moves to create and produce excellent products.
Some animations are very smooth, some are janky as hell. The Nexus One has a faster processor than the iPhone 3GS and has twice the RAM, and yet it still cannot have as fluid a UI as the iPhone OS. This is great proof that your software is key—throwing raw power at things won’t necessarily make them better.
— Maniacal Rage: Initial Nexus One Impressions: Reading post
The Apple Store’s Checkout Form Redesign
A great review of how Apple has updated their checkout forms. I have to say, Apple has inproved their process. (via Mighty Dream)