Tag: design
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Google Doodle: Indonesia National Batik Day 2019
Today, Google search page for users in Indonesia has a doodle to celebrate National Batik Day 2019. Quoted from Google Doodle’s page: Today’s Doodle celebrates and was made using Batik, a technique for decorating fabric using wax and pigment to create complex, colorful patterns. Batik artisans cover fabric with a wax design, add dye, and finally…
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CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 2019 For Mac
When I switched to Mac (from Windows), I never looked backed on Windows-only applications. One of them is CorelDRAW. There was a time when CorelDRAW became a popular graphic design software. Recently, Corel Corporation released its latest CorelDRAW Graphic Suite 2019. And, it’s for Mac.
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WhatsApp Updates: Message queue, more photos/videos to send
Even I use Telegram more than WhatsApp, but I still have WhatsApp installed since some of my contacts are still there. The latest WhatsApp for iPhone — I haven’t checked the Android version — has some features that I think needed to be noted. Message queue. Any messages being sent/received while not being connected to the…
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G Suite
Google Apps for Work now has a new name. It’s G Suite. G Suite is a set of intelligent apps — Gmail, Docs, Drive, Calendar, Hangouts, and more — designed to bring people together, with real-time collaboration built in from the start. And there’s a lot more on the way. Because we believe that when organizations…
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BlackBerry will focus on software
BlackBerry will stop designing its own phones and focus on software “The company plans to end all internal hardware development and will outsource that function to partners,” CEO John Chen said in a statement. “This allows us to reduce capital requirements and enhance return on invested capital.”
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Good story
“Telling a good story, whether that’s through email, film, or any medium, creates a connection. And it’s this connection that leads to attention, which leads to trust, which leads to sales.” — Mikael Cho: Why you don’t need design like Apple
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Inside Beats by Dre
What’s inside Beats by Dre? With $199 retail price, there must be something inside. Lots of optimizations are to be expected in a product manufactured in the millions of units: snaps and glue are used for assembly rather than screws (which require lots of human manipulation) and almost every part is injection molded plastic (which…
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How Google Finally Got Design
For every bet that Google makes, there are many others quietly forgotten, and others still abandoned when the winds changed or the prime movers moved on. Put another way, you can create good design in sprints, but creating great design is a marathon, run over and over again. Google still has so many miles to…
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Bye OPPO R819
Last week, during my business trip to Jakarta, I lost my OPPO R819 phone which I bougt almost two years ago. It was my second Android phone I ever had. I liked it a lot for its design and features. I’m thinking of getting a new Android phone. But… what?
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F Pattern Layout
F Pattern Layout — “Rather than trying to force the viewer’s visual flow, the F-Layout gives in to the natural behaviors of most web surfers and it uses scientific studies to back it up.”
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Clients From Hell
Clients From Hell — A collection of anonymously contributed client horror stories from designers.
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Let's talk about the (new) Yahoo's email service
Recently, Yahoo redesigned its mail service again. I’ve talked about Yahoo Mail last August. I hoped for an improvements. Recently, on its 16th birthday, Yahoo gives a new look for its mail service. Quoting from a release published at Yahoo’s blog: We redesigned Yahoo Mail to be more efficient, too. Things you do all of…