Information Architects

iPad Stencil for Omnigraffle

This is the first version of an OmniGraffle template for folks designing iPad apps. It's not complete; we plan to update it as we're working on our own designs. Contains backgrounds, title bars, buttons, selectors, and other iPhone UI elements Based the iPad PSD GUI by Teehan+Lax. Text is fully editable on ...

The iPad and the Publishing Industry

The Thing iPad will save the publishing industry as much as the iPod has saved the music industry. Meaning: There are a couple of things in publishing that it will change. What things? What's going to happen to the news industry? The book industry? Will it allow us to sell ...

What’s Next in Web Design?

I've been asked by the Italian magazine L'Espresso to write an article on The Future of Web Design. Here is the (longer) English text. Thinking about what’s next online is fun because everything you wish to come true will come true. While commercial products obey to the laws of the market, ...

Web Trend Map Video Interview

I sat down with the video team of GaijinPot.com for a short interview about the Web Trend Map. As you will learn we are planning to publish a book (a Web Trend Map Atlas) next year. Along with the next poster we plan to publish a book in cooperation with ...

Can Experience be Designed?

First, think about a number between one and ten. Then take a step back and look at the words "User Experience Design" as if you had never seen them. Look at them closely until you hear them with the vanilla motor voice of Christopher Walken: USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN. What do you ...

Dynamic Pricing for Digital Goods

We decided to sell the WordPress template of our own site. The problem we had to solve was not "why?" than "how much"? After a long back and forth we decided to try something new: Dynamic pricing. Here is how it works: Start selling at the lowest price you’d go ...

Kenya Hara On Japanese Aesthetics

What makes Japanese design so special? Basically, it's a matter of simplicity; a particular notion of simplicity, different from what simplicity means in the West. So are things in general better designed in Japan? Well, actually, it's not that simple... The New York Times asked us to get them in ...

Internazionale: Look and Feel

Here are a few design explorations on the possible look and feel for Internazionale. They are based on the beautiful work that Mark Porter, creative director of the Guardian editorial did for the print edition. We'd like to post them without comment as we're curious to hear what you think. ...

Google, Yahoo, Bing: Beyond the Hype

The story is quite clear: Yahoo is going down. Google is going up, Bing is insignificant. It's becoming quite clear who the real winner of the Yahoo!-Microsoft deal is. Compared to their competitors, Bing doesn't do that well on usability either. As for Yahoo!--the latest UI changes on Yahoo! (and the ...

Tell me again: Who Relaunched Krone.at?

I got an email the other day from a young entrepreneur that asked whether we send out press releases. The answer is twisted: So far I have refrained from sending out press releases. But that might change... Press Releases: Contra Press releases are not authentic. They're written in an obsolete sleazy PR ...