I’ve been using iOS 10 since WWDC and have now updated all my devices to iOS 10 beta 2. My experience with this beta has been solid and marked by little pockets of discovery.
One of those discoveries, here since beta one, I believe, is the addition of Force Touch to Control Center. Read on for the details.
This well designed flat card slides out of your wallet and quickly unfolds into a stand for your phone, perfect for in flight entertainment. Originally released as part of a 2013 Kickstarter, this new version is updated to accommodate iPhones in cases as well as Android phones.
Great idea.
A solid article that shows off the use of tabs in macOS Sierra, tabs that you’ve long used in Safari and, likely less often, in the Finder.
One of the best things about Sierra tabs is that developers get them for free, so you’ll be able to use tabs in all your favorite apps.
Ken Segall knew Steve Jobs well. Segall was a former TBWA\Chiat\Day creative director, he worked on a long range of advertising projects for both Apple and NeXT, and he was and is a fierce advocate for simplicity.
He did an interview for The Guardian, weighing in with his thoughts on simplicity.
From the PixelSquid site:
Browse thousands of objects in our library, spin for the right angle, and then download a PNG or layered PSD with perfect transparency. With PixelSquid objects, you’ll never need to spend your time masking.
Great concept. Worth a look.
Rumors are circulating that Apple’s next-generation iPhone will drop the 3.5-millimeter headphone jack, with new iPhone headsets relying on the lightning port or Bluetooth instead.
Whether or not this is true, there is another report of a Chinese accessory maker advertising a series of Lightning-to-headphone adapters with separate volume controls.
Google, don’t make it jarring to move from one app to another. You’ll stick out like a sore thumb.
A remarkable review, a wealth of detail.
David Chartier:
When using a hardware keyboard with iOS 9, you can hold the Command key to view a cheat sheet of an app’s shortcuts (assuming its developer has updated to add some). But I noticed this morning that those shortcuts can be contextual, based on the task at hand or which panel or tab you are currently viewing.
This web site is a crowdsourced effort to collect disassembly instructions. As an example, this link walks through the process of completely taking apart a Strat-like electric guitar. Lots of pictures. Everything comes apart.
Beautiful cutaway print showing what really goes on inside the original Mac.
This is remarkably blatant. Just look at the image.
Solid review by Lauren Goode. Lots to enjoy (be sure to watch the clever side-by-side video) and some solid numbers to chew on, especially regarding a comparison to the MacBook Air.
There’s a lot of press focusing on the slowness and lag of Apple Watch apps. True, but shortsighted. Read on for details.
Is Apple ready to move on from the antiquated 3.5mm headphone jack? It’ll happen sooner or later, but this post indicates that Apple might shop one model with, one without.
If you make your way through iFixit’s Retina MacBook 2016 teardown, you’ll see some tamper evident screws holding the hinge to the aluminum body. Looks like Loctite, not tamper-proofing.
Interesting.
[VIDEO] I absolutely love this piece. Take a minute to watch the video, embedded below. Federico and Sam Beckett did an amazing job visualizing iOS elements that do not exist in real life, making them seem as if they did exist. Incredible.
Terrific post from Ben Bajarin, an insider’s look at security and the balance it finds with usability.
Put me in for one of each, please.
Interesting insight into how Apple design decisions throughout the industry.
Some real repairability issues. I wonder if Liam the Robot would have problems taking this one apart.
Steven Aquino makes the case that the iPad Pro display is a real boon to accessibility. Another detail that Apple got right.
I so want one. If you have even the slightest interest in cars or design, check out the pictures in this post. Lovely, lovely work.
Interesting look at the connection between the utopian movements of the ’60s and the tech industry.
Interested in design? Click the headline link, then start reading, clicking the right arrow to go to the next one.
From a Quora post about the MacBook Pro’s gently pulsing sleep light. Incredible attention to detail.
This tutorial on the use of color in graphic design is basic, but easy to get through and well designed. At the end, you’ll invest just a few minutes but gain an understanding of the five basic color combination categories.
Incredibly innovative design, worth watching the video just to get a sense of how this works.
As you scroll through the single-page site, note that each panel tells a story. For example, one tells us the popular colors. Another tells us the adoption numbers for Photoshop vs Sketch.
Serenity Caldwell continues her “Coding Corner” series with a how-to on building a website if you don’t know the first thing about web site development. Pass this one along.