7 New Design Touches in Snow Leopard

There's a lot of literature out there about the new features in Snow Leopard, but this article isn't covering those. It's about some of the smaller touch-ups to the UI design that they made to the interface, and initial impressions of the progression of the design. I'd say these small touches are relevant because many user interface design changes we've seen over the course of the last decade or so have been born out of updates to the OS X user interface. see the article

Design Stories Behind 4 Famous U.S. Historical Landmarks

National monuments are strange creations. Their designs are intended to be symbolic, metaphorical and try to tell a story. The designs can often also get deeply political. These are some of the stories behind the typically grueling process of creating a monument that is meant to represent a historical figure or event, but just as much is a design of its day. see the article

From Good Concept to Bad Outcome

I came across this ad today when I was looking through the Sunday paper. It bothered me because it was a good concept drowned through seemingly bad vision or leadership. see the article

How to Avoid the Trap of Making Many Small Revisions

In the time that I've been moving from a young design pup into a... larger design pup, I've noticed a trend in designer/client relations: the multiple revision. One trap that a lot of designers fall into is making a lot of small changes or small revisions to a client's piece, because the client doesn't want to give all of the changes at once. see the article

How Do You Like to Back Up Your Work?

Last night, I had a bit of a headache on my hands when the .css file of my new website disappeared in a 500 server error. I have never in my life had this happen to me before, but it was somewhat devastating, nevertheless, especially after all the hours I put into getting the exact right baseline of the copy on my page. see the article

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