For months, Apple constantly drummed up how different iOS 7 would be from all the other iOS systems the iPhone has ever seen. Apple CEO Tim Cook called it a “stunning new user interface”. They finally unveiled the design of iOS 7, and we can certainly say that Tim Cook was right: the iOS 7 seems very different, if not better, from all the past versions. If you’re waiting to get your hands on iOS…
For many years, web designers were encouraged to compress information and keep important page elements “above the fold”. However, the emergence of smartphones and tablets has led designers to rethink the way we build webpages. Interestingly, this has led to the re-emergence of an old navigational technique – vertical scrolling – though this time with a new twist. Vertically scrolling was a staple of web “navigation” in the mid-late 1990s, but this was more due…
As web designers, we’re focused on beautiful design and creating an amazing user experience. Because of this single-minded focus, a lot of web designers pay minimal attention to search engine optimization (SEO). Others hold some woefully outdated ideas about ranking in the search engines – there are still designers in 2013 who wax on about the importance of “submitting” to the search engines. If you’re a designer looking to provide better service to your clients,…