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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
