9 October 2011 0 Comments

Steve Jobs

A mere few days have passed since the news came in, and I thought it would be fitting to collect together some thoughts from a few of the AppStorm editors. This is simply our tribute to a truly inspirational man. Josh Johnson I’ve loved Macs for almost as long as I can remember. The last [...]

9 October 2011 0 Comments

Quick Look: Word vs Word

Quick Look posts are paid submissions offering only a brief overview of an app. Vote in the polls below if you think this app is worth an in-depth AppStorm review! In this Quick Look, we’re highlighting Word vs Word. The developer describes Word vs Word as offering everything that makes a word game fun. Your [...]

9 October 2011 0 Comments

Interview With Nancy Duarte

Presentation design. It’s a niche market that only a very small percentage of designers ever consider working in. The basics are pretty easy to understand. No code and no monster high-resolution assets. Recently, I had the opportunity to speak with Nancy Duarte, CEO of Duarte Design. Duarte Design creates beautiful presentations for Fortune 500 companies [...]

8 October 2011 0 Comments

How to Pay Nothing for Your New iPhone

In 2008, I purchased a shiny new iPhone 3G for myself and my wife and spent a few hundred dollars in the process. Ever since then I’ve been able to buy each new iPhone and it paid for itself within an hour, maybe two at the most. In fact, sometimes I’ve even turned a profit. [...]

8 October 2011 0 Comments

How to Pay Nothing for Your New iPhone

In 2008, I purchased a shiny new iPhone 3G for myself and my wife and spent a few hundred dollars in the process. Ever since then I’ve been able to buy each new iPhone and it paid for itself within an hour, maybe two at the most. In fact, sometimes I’ve even turned a profit. [...]

8 October 2011 0 Comments

WordPress Essentials: The Definitive Guide To WordPress Hooks

    If you’re into WordPress development, you can’t ignore hooks for long before you have to delve into them head on. Modifying WordPress core files is a big no-no, so whenever you want to change existing functionality or create new functionality, you will have to turn to hooks. In this article, I would like [...]

8 October 2011 0 Comments

16 Pixels: For Body Copy. Anything Less Is A Costly Mistake

    16 Pixels For Body Copy. Anything Less IsA Costly Mistake I know what you’re thinking. “Did he just say 16 pixels? For body copy? Obnoxiously big! 12 pixels is ideal for most websites.” I’d like to persuade you otherwise. As usability expert Oliver Reichenstein says in “The 100% Easy-2-Read Standard”: [16 pixels] is [...]

8 October 2011 0 Comments

Free Download: Cheat Sheet For Designing Web Forms

    Forms, forms, forms: so often overlooked in design. In this post, we are pleased to release the Form Design Cheat Sheet, created by Joe Leech and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers. This crib sheet contains an Omnigraffle template, as well as Photoshop (PSD) and PDF examples for you to download and [...]

8 October 2011 0 Comments

Create an Underwater, Vector-Style Illustration in Photoshop

Photoshop isn’t the first application that we think of when some one mentions vector-style illustrations. That’s because we have Illustrator to easily produce vector artwork. While Photoshop wasn’t originally designed to create these types of illustrations, it does have the capability to produce illustrations that can meet or exceed that of Illustrator. In this tutorial [...]

7 October 2011 0 Comments

Luminance: A Simple and Powerful Photo Editor

As a professional designer, I love editing photos. Until recently, that meant hooking up your digital camera to your computer to import them, and opening said photos in a desktop program (e.g. Photoshop). However, the iPhone has made it incredibly easy and convenient to capture and edit photos all on the same device. With the [...]

7 October 2011 0 Comments

iPhone Game Friday: New Releases

It seems fitting that it’s through the devices and services that he helped pioneer that Steve Jobs is being so fondly and enthusiastically remembered in the wake of his untimely death. His impact for many of us was as much inspirational as practical, and though the wound is still raw, we should remember his encouragements [...]

7 October 2011 0 Comments

Not Your Parent’s Mobile Phone: UX Design Guidelines For Smartphones

    In your pocket right now is the most powerful “remote control” (as Drew Diskin put it) that has ever existed. It is no ordinary remote control. It can harness everything that all of the previous mass media (television, radio, Internet, etc.) can do. People aren’t using them just for simple entertainment or for [...]