October 2011
1 post
Dear Siri, Who Is Eliza? The Past And What's To...
If you’ve managed to get your hands on a new iPhone 4S, chances are you’ve interrogated Apple’s new personal assistant, Siri. I’m pretty sure I have asked Siri to marry me, love me, and tell me jokes more times than I’ve looked up any sort of useful information, but I’m not alone. In fact, so many people are digging into Siri’s artificial brain, streams of...
Credit Card Icon Pack
Introducing 35 miniature credit card icons. A hand drawn icon pack just for you. They’re realistic, simple, and one-hundred percent awesome. Each one has just enough pixels to remain clear and understandable, and just few enough to stay out of the way. Use them for online checkouts, your personal store, donation buttons, affiliate links, or whatever else you need them for. One look at...
September 2010
1 post
New Icons: iTunes 10 →
You’ve heard all of the fuss. It’s all just stupid. Even Steve agree s that the new icon does not “suck.” In fact, I love the iTunes 10 logo. The CD was getting old, and Apple decided it was time for a refresh. The only problem I had was that the icon looked just a little off in my dock. Not dramatically, but a tiny bit. So I took it into Photoshop tweaked a few things. The...
August 2010
1 post
Designing the Capo Icon
I’m proud to announce Capo 2 is officially out. Get ready to rock because the latest update is insane.
Capo lets you learn your music. You can drag a song from iTunes into Capo, slow it down, loop difficult sections, hide vocals, and mark up certain verses. With some practice you can actually learn to play entire songs from your favorite artists. Capo received quite a lot of buzz on its original...
June 2010
2 posts
iOS Icons Made in Pure CSS
Click here to see 11 iOS icons made in only CSS, no images whatsoever.
NOTE: This demo will only work correctly on a webkit browser and has only been tested in Safari 5 and Google Chrome 5. Here’s how it will look when rendered correctly.
How was it done?
The following demo was made using a variety of CSS techniques. Rounded corners, shadows, gradients, rgba,...
Apple Showcases HTML5 →
Insane examples of some awesome HTML5 techniques. Apple says, “These web standards are open, reliable, highly secure, and efficient. They allow web designers and developers to create advanced graphics, typography, animations, and transitions. Standards aren’t add-ons to the web. They are the web. And you can start using them today.”
May 2010
1 post
MobileMe Mail Beta, a Visual Walkthrough
When MobileMe launched two years ago we saw a major improvement from Apple’s original service “.Mac.” MobileMe came with the use of the cloud and “push” technology and a brand new set of desktop-class web applications (or Me.com). Me.com allowed anyone to access their email, contacts, calendars, photos, and files from any computer with an internet connection.
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March 2010
1 post
Designing for the Multitasker
Everyone wants to be able to multitask these days. Especially with cell phones and mobile gadgets. More and more mobile applications are being released every day, many of them that interact with others. For example, finding several images from the web and adding them to your text document. This works wonderfully on a large display. One can just drag and drop from window to window. But what about...
January 2010
5 posts
iPad UI Roundup →
Sebastiaan de With has wrote a wonderful summary of the Apple iPad’s user interface. While I don’t think the homescreen is as slick as my mockup, the rest of the UI is fantastic. Sebastiaan carefully covers the good, the bad, and the ugly.
Apple Tablet: The Concept UI
With all of the rumors going around about the new Apple Tablet, I thought I would take a stab at the UI. The past two days I’ve put together a mockup of the “homescreen” by combining Snow Leopards UI with the iPhone OS. I also used the rumored information along with some of my own predictions.
View the full resolution UI
Similar to the Palm Pre and iPhone’s Mobile...
Gallery of Older Icons →
Looking for previous icon sets of mine? I got rid of a few when launching the redesign. View my deviantArt to see all past icons sets including what’s not on the icons page. Like: Donuts, Holiday Wreaths, and Safari Gleam.
The Inspiration for Graphicpeel v3
A lot of work went into the new version of Graphicpeel, but I was inspired by a number of websites and other designers across the web. I’d like to credit them here. See if you can find the similarities…
Front Page Layout - Louie Mantia
Email Overlay - Michael Flarup
Twitter Sidebar - Mike Rundle
Download Buttons - Rich Dellinger
Custom Zoom Cursors - Max Rudberg
Thanks guys!
Welcome to Graphicpeel v3
It’s a new year and Graphicpeel is due for an update. I’ve been hard at work pushing pixels and writing up code to make this the best update yet. Inspired by the websites of many others, I have come up with something that I can call my own.
The previous version of Graphicpeel was hard on the eyes. The dark blues and white text was a pain to read. The icon page was messy and difficult to...