My name is Jake Marsh. Inventor 💡 Founder 👨🏻💻 Creator 👨🎤 Writer ✍🏻 Lifeform 👽
Great slides make for great presentations. But more than that, great slides really help people understand the information you’re trying to present to them. Zach Holman outlines the finer points of this in a post on slide design targeted towards developers. My slides are not designed for people who… Read more of Slide Design for Developers →
If you’ll indulge me, I’d like to take a minute to talk about this little bastard: In recent months, the conversation amongst many of my designer friends has often drifted to something like this: What the hell is with all the crazy textures and patterns in Apple’s user interfaces lately? I… Read more of Linens 'n Things →
I always find it fun to try to spot all the tiny design differences in Apple’s user interfaces whenever a new update comes out. A blog called Design Archive has put together some comparison shots of iOS 4 and iOS 5 highlighting some of the more fun differences. Normally I would quote the site I’m… Read more of Subtle Design Changes in iOS 5 →
Looks like the CSS Working Group has published their first working draft of how they’d like CSS4 selectors to work. Here are some of the highlights: JavaScript CSS CSS There’s tons more and David Storey does a great job of explaining stuff in his blog post. Read more of CSS4 Selectors →
Yes. This is so helpful it’s not even funny. This little baby comes to us thanks to Wade Cosgrove. A custom color picker designed specifically for developers. Makes getting colors out of Photoshop/Acorn mock-ups quick and easy. Currently supports NSColor, UIColor, CGColorRef, CSS and HTML styles… Read more of Developer Color Picker →
I see this type of stuff a lot in other people’s code: Objective-C It’s certainly not wrong, but you are incurring a huge performance and memory usage hit just to get the width and height of an image. Enter the CGImageSource... methods. As of iOS 4, the SDK includes a better solution in the form… Read more of Accessing Image Properties Without Loading the Image →
Been wanting something like this for a long time. GAJavaScript is a Cocoa Touch library that makes working with JavaScript from inside native code much more tolerable, maybe even fun. JavaScript is accessed from Cocoa Touch using UIWebView. GAJavaScript has the concept of a “script engine”, which… Read more of GAJavaScript →
Delight is in the details. Subtle hints, humor, metaphor, animation, and beautiful visuals are some of the tools we use give our app character. Fantastic article on the things Apple Design Awards apps do to become so great. Read more of 7 Keys to Unlock an Apple Design Award →
One of the most interesting additions to iOS 5 was iCloud storage which makes it easy to sync data between apps running on different iOS and OS X devices. Effectively you can store key application data in the cloud and have it propagate to all instances of the app wherever they are running. Nice… Read more of Syncing Your App's Preferences with iCloud →
animate.css is a bunch of cool, fun, and cross-browser animations for you to use in your projects. Great for emphasis, home pages, sliders, and general just-add-water-awesomeness. Great little library for generating a pre-made.css file filled with ready-to-use CSS3 keyframe animations. Useful and… Read more of Animate.css - a bunch of plug-and-play CSS animations →
From former members of the iPod and iOS design teams, interface design by Mike Matas No more programming, no more constantly changing the temperature. The NestTM Learning ThermostatTM programs itself in a week to keep you comfortable and save energy. Neat idea, price is a little steep at $249 but… Read more of Nest - The Learning Thermostat →
Love seeing stuff like this, really helps illustrate how far the web has come. Read more of How the CSS Animations on Apple's iPhone 4S Page Work →
Oh man. This image was hosted on CloudApp, which shut down. It’s gone. Simply place your iPhone into the Iris 9000 cradle and use the included micro remote to trigger Siri up to 50 feet away. Just tap the Iris 9000 remote button once, listen for the Siri chime, and speak your command. The built in… Read more of IRIS 9000 Voice Control Module for Siri →
Let me just say that I’m still rather undecided as to whether or not Apple will in fact bring their own television set to market. I did, however, find it a really fun challenge to try to imagine what a true Apple TV might be a like. Take from it what you will. First off let’s assume a few things… Read more of What If Apple Made a TV? →
Received my Grove Bamboo Back for my Macbook Pro today. Here’s my quick review: They are really high quality, loving the sturdiness. The adhesive was actually a lot more forgiving than I expected. The built-in Apple logo is still slightly visible through the wood, not immediately noticeable, but… Read more of Grove Bamboo MacBook Backs →
Calendar, Notes and Contacts are all explainable — they reference real world things (even if they shouldn’t). My Mum likes that her calendar looks more like a Filofax than Outlook 2003. Fair enough. A Filofax is a thing. I get it. And the Compass app is based on a compass. Another thing. But I’m… Read more of The Metaphors Breaking The Future →