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Design: In everyday life, “Design” refers to the pleasant shape of things. It is a superficial term, cosmetic rather than structural in its meaning. When designers talk about “Design” they refer to how a product or service works, rather than how it looks. Designers, a highly heterogeneous audience, have a more structural, sometimes even moral understanding of how products are built. The difference in use can lead to a lot of misunderstandings. When talking to a client, be sure to specify what kind of design you’re referring to, which helps avoid debates around Taste.
Not sure what to get your friends for Christmas?
Create, structure, design, prepare—the rest is easy
Summer reading tips on writing, presenting, and design
A selection of books about writing, presenting and design
Orlando and Oliver studied philosophy together 30 years ago. Their shared love for philosophy, design, and technology reunited them to discuss AI and the future.
Available in iA Presenter beta for Mac
Preorders are open
Things can be replaced—lost time, however, is forever lost
Like all good things
We redesigned everything.
Do you wonder sometimes about sound and letters?
There is a connection between good and beautiful.
iA Writer now offers three custom designed writing fonts
The most precious things cannot be measured, counted or weighed
And Hillary Clinton uses iA Writer
In search of the perfect writing typeface
A sneak peek
iA Writer 5
What designers can learn from games
We ♥ icons, madly
An adventure
On quality
What makes designers think they are so special?
A love letter
Why did it take so long?
Interview with Business Insider
Interview with The Verge
How to deal with a variety of screen sizes and resolutions
We need not only responsive layouts, we also need responsive typefaces.
Interview with DRT.fm
The history, shape and sound pattern of each letter
Freemium for News?
A lecture
“Card Sharks” vs “Holy Scrollers”
A marketing stunt, or mere tomfoolery?
"iA on IA" from EuroIA 2010.
“Writer has out-innovated Apple.” —Fast Company
Rhetoric and reality
Interview with Jonny Holland
WIRED on iPad
Art for Geeks
Per Anhalter durch die Twitter Galaxis
A reality check
The contract was never signed, so we kept our designs in the drawer... Until now…
Meet the Cosmic 140
An outlook for L’Espresso
An interview with GaijinPot.com
On mind control
We decided to try something new
What makes Japanese design so special?
A little bit of everything, please
You gotta keep em separated
The coolest gift for geeks
Blog comments have an innate communication problem: You can't discuss and moderate the discussion at the same time.
A preview
Google vs. Apple
Das ultimative Tool für Internetfreaks, die Web Trend Map 2008, ist nun als A0-Poster erhältlich.
The coolest gift for geeks
We present you with the 2008 Web Trend Map, in all its beautiful beta glory. This time we’ve taken almost 300 of the most influential and successful websites and pinned them down to the greater Tokyo-area train map.
New layers!
What’s New?
Branding Crimes
Branding Crimes
Branding Crimes
Face Off
Version 2.0
Quality costs time and money
...as a Wiki
"This is our salvation." Is it?
Mission Accomplished
Reactions
All the big players
Never underestimate an artist
Don't be lazy
You got to come in colors
Reactions
Signals work best if they're bold
Brand = UI
Deeper beauty
Style Is easy, ease is hard
The F-Pattern
Webdesign is Product Design
Why are Computers not Flying?
Just Noise?
Do pretty websites work better than ugly ones?