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Skype 5 for Mac: Followup

April 4, 2011 in Design Trends No Comments yet

A followup to the previous piece about Skype 5 for Mac and the ongoing design contest.

A Call to All UI Designers: Do Not Play Skype’s Game

March 24, 2011 in Design Trends 16 Comments

If you really love what you do, read carefully what follows. If you don’t, you can stop reading immediately, but just keep in mind that you are betraying the design community, and that might harm you as designer in the long run.

Decontextualization Kills Design

September 13, 2010 in Design Trends 4 Comments

Decontextualization, as you may have guessed it, 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.

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