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This is actually bigger than people might think. Many Apps and web apps use Apple Emojis without the propper license and the open source variations you can find until now are ugly to say the least. This move will actually bring well designed emojis to more projects.
Now everyone can take advantage of them!
SVG is the new * at least it seems that finally SVG gets the attention it deserves, and this extensive article gives a great overview over how to create them, optimize them, style them etc. Read it, Bookmark it and read it again when needed.
Sara Soueidan explains how to export and optimize SVGs, how each one affects the styles and animations applied, and introduces techniques for embedding them.
Very interesting approach on using bookmarklets to try design changes on life systems without affecting the deployed server. Sounds complicated? The article is well written and helps you decide if this is something that can help bring you faster to your goal.
Bookmarklets in the design world
Why we sometimes use bookmarklets on the design team at Medium
Interesting approach for a design pattern library - not only screenshots, but animated gifs actually showing the interaction.
uiGIFs - User interface patterns in the form of animated GIFs
Animated UI inspiration in your inbox every Monday. Give me GIFs. play. Sift Rentals ・ 14. play. tapkast ・ 11. play. Twitter Audio Card ・ 4. play. Rooms ・ 14. play. Pq ・ 14. play. Bring! ・ 14. play. PhotoMath ・ 12. play. AnyDo 2.0 ・ 15. play. Flipboard 3.0 ・ 11. play. Skype Qik ・ 20 ...
I love history - and computer inteface history is even better. This great blog post about the icons we use to manage windows in operating systems is full of animated gifs and guide you through the evolution of the Title Bar Buttons.
The Evolution of the Title Bar Buttons - Placeit Blog
We wanted to discover the complete evolution of the title bar buttons. So we set out on a journey through GUI's to pinpoint exactly how they started.
A free PDF Book with guidelines and best practices for everyone who wants to build and market Android Apps.
Introducing a New Guide, “The Secrets to App Success on Google Play”
Good writeup about this new service. Looks promising and I will share my upcomming free projects here. Already got some ideas. So follow me at
https://www.pixelapse.com/derfrankie/
Pixelapse is built on a simple, radical premise: I'll show you mine if you show me yours.
Maybe one of the most complete collection of thoughts around the sharing icon variety. And a nice discussion in the comments - what is not that common.
And why iOS 7's icon is nicknamed the "uploader" - What do each of these symbols have in common? They are all trying to convey the exact same action - share! Sharing to a social network or via email is a ubiquitous action nowadays but designers have still not been able to reach a consensus on what symbol to use to represent it. Not only does each major platform use a different icon, but they've each witnessed changes over the years.I have spent ...
Sharing Buttons seem so 2006 but we still add them on websites - for the eventuality of virality. There are some scenarios where you what to share content - mostly content bits. On AndroidPit we added sharing to App Questions, because those are relatively small content bits which people want to share.
Another strategy is the one the Guardian uses - offer sharing when you select text. Great idea, but you need for sure some on-boarding to make this feature discoverable.
Originally shared by +Wolfgang Blau
by the way: select any word or sentence on the new Guardian site and you can tweet or email it right away.
see at www.theguardian.com/us
Thx to Richard Nguyen and +Cantlin Ashrowan
A nice post with the pros and cons of some popular tools ... there are many many out there
There is still some discrepancies between the Guidelines, Checklists and the actual Google Apps, but these slideshow helps close a couple of gaps - especially in the typography realm.
Check it out.
Originally shared by +Chris Banes
Papercraft: Material design + Implementation
Here are the slides to the talk +Nick Butcher and I just gave at +droidcon London.
Show and tell for designers.
Want to build a dashboard for all your Websites running Google Analytics? Want to embed some stat in a online report for your CEO - I think here you can find the right examples.
#link #Google #googleanalytics
Originally shared by +Google Analytics
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C/O Berlin präsentiert vom 31. Oktober 2014 bis 18. Januar 2015 die Ausstellung Magnum . Contact Sheets.
This is not your standard chart based on app numbers per categories. This chart is based on data from 342.000 Apps isntalled on over 100.000 Devices recorded from April-October 2014. This gives a better overview on what on how popular a category is with smartphone users - not just how popular it is with developers. If you go by lists from Appbrain or App Annie you might think that Business, Photography and Social are hot categories ... but they are not or even worse, they have plenty of downloads, but only from a few apps. Trying to push an app in these categories might be very difficult. I did not lump Games into one value here to give the full picture - but all game categories combined is about 50% larger then Tools, the single most popular app category. And here is the list:
The newest Photoshop CC 2014 update brings a new tool for Android and iOS Developers to extract the assets you need in the various screen resolutions. Since Adobe is always leaning towards iOS/Apple than Android the preset settings are geared toward iOS. Here is the quick 6 step workflow to make it work for Android.
Great and short read. Some points might be obvious, but it would make a great checklist to hang as a poster on the wall.
All that hard work for nothing! Here, 11 tips for winning proposals and securing lucrative contracts.
Great move from Coldplay - stream their concert live. You might say, that's not news, but they do a couple of things right. http://www.coldplayaustralia.com.au/#/social-feed
First, they use a dedicated site they own, instead of one of the big companies. So I imagine, that the site will be still there when you read this post.
Second, they have a social stream and photos to give you beyond the music a way to experience it. In my opinion in a better way than even video would do.
I found immediately a useful use case for the new IFTTT on Android - log when I'm in the office. So I can check my working hours and when I actually worked. I shared it so check it out.
Just noticed today that Google has cleaned up the photos section of Google+. No more confusion between Highlights and a Photo Stream. The show more images button has changed and the now everywhere present "card" background appear only on hover. The interface of the single album view has also been optimized. Now there are simple buttons for switching between Highlights and "all Photos" - this has been quite hidden before - and the properties are easier to access. If you click on the name for example a modal window shows up.
It shows that some of the sleeker design decisions have not been accepted well it seems. A reminder to us UX Designer to continue to improve and test our designs.
