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Five Things to Avoid When Receiving Design Feedback ☞

While our clients, bosses or peers might not always be able to communicate effectively their opinions when giving design feedback, it is by no mean an excuse for us designers to put all the blame of a faulty communication on them. We are equally responsible, if not slightly more.

Decontextualization Kills Design ☞

Decontextualization is the act of stripping something out of its context. Design is intrinsically tied to the context in which it was brought into existance; decontextualizing it yields some devastating effects.

◎ iTunes Icon Throughout the Years ☞

While everyone is trying to come up with iTunes replacement icons, I spent some time making this timeline with the various icon iterations since 2001.

iTunes Icons throughout the years.

I am hearing some of you thinking 'WTF?', and that's totally understandable.

Thoughts on the New iTunes Icon ☞

Yesterday Steve unveiled a new iTunes with social networking capabilities and a brand new logo. Like many of you, I am not yet convinced that Apple is going the right direction with this redesign.

Six Reasons Why Vector UI Design Rules ☞

Few moons ago I had the chance to work on the UI of an iPhone application as a part of larger project. Unlike many fellow interface designers who swear by Photoshop, I decided to tackle the whole project on Illustrator.

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