Here's your sign that if you're struggling with something maybe you should just reach out to the person who is the best at that thing and ask if they'd like to do it instead.
Here's the crappy G I sent and then the one he sent back. The dude rocks.
— Mike Smith (@mikesmith187)
So Contact is one of my favorite sci-fi movies, and part of why is about how "real" it feels. It's far less fantastic-feeling than most sci-fi.Part of that is the contemporary setting, sure, but the visual direction plays a big part of it. pic.twitter.com/ov2CY8JAxJ— foone🏳️⚧️ (@Foone) August 19, 2018
Benjamin Hendricks on X: "A big component of my job as Computer Graphics Supervisor is understanding enough about the real world to be able to trick audiences into thinking they are seeing real photography. And sometimes we go down some weird and fun rabbit holes. Here’s a fairly simple one:" / X
This design system brand expression visualisation from Starbucks is very niceThe battle between brand expression and predictable system patterns is always a tough thing to figure out, but they present theirs on a scale:Functional ↔️ Expressivehttps://t.co/JsW7ehPKGV pic.twitter.com/YARtcvUHiQ— luis. (@disco_lu) November 27, 2023
https://t.co/Qic7TNZqHJ — Mucho (@wearemucho) is a lot of studio and they have a new website I think. It doesn't matter, it is a good excuse to revisit their work. Clean classics. pic.twitter.com/Ru6imbVLXk— thisisgrey (@thisisgrey) November 9, 2023
Michael Darius discusses his work developing GarageBand from Logic Pro, summarizing that they aimed to simplify the professional music software while maintaining core functionality, and invested heavily in skeuomorphic design to make the experience feel intuitive like real studio equipment.
Lancaster, CA transformed its downtown in just 8 months by redesigning it's main street from a mini-highway to a tree-lined boulevard.For the cost of just $11.5M, the project has generated $273M in economic output since 2010, creating 800 jobs, and nearly doubling tax revenue! pic.twitter.com/kS3E4dpjGq— Coby (@Cobylefko) July 20, 2023
Technical breakdown of a few neurologicalgical innovations in the Vision Pro
One of the coolest results involved predicting a user was going to click on something before they actually did. That was a ton of work and something I’m proud of. Your pupil reacts before you click in part because you expect something will happen after you click. So you can create biofeedback with a user's brain by monitoring their eye behavior, and redesigning the UI in real time to create more of this anticipatory pupil response. It’s a crude brain computer interface via the eyes, but very cool. And I’d take that over invasive brain surgery any day.
Here's some detail around how the new @trycampsite switch component was crafted and built. Will share some of the shadow/lighting detail as well as a little code used for the toggle animation: pic.twitter.com/Q1iLbo5PWe— Derek Briggs (@PixelJanitor) February 21, 2023
“Fellow film tech nerds, if you can't get enough of the ol' Vitrum Cepa this holiday season, settle in for a LONG #NerdyFilmTechStuff post on the lighting rigs we built for the heightened, theatrical, impressionistic lighthouse effect in @RianJohnson's #GlassOnion.”
🙌 THE 4 DAY WORK WEEK HAS HIT IRELAND WITH ASTONISHING RESULTS. 🙌The Irish Findings are as follows:• 100% of the companies involved are continuing with the 4-Day work week ➡• 85% of companies which reported data on revenue reported growth in revenue 📈 (1/X)— Dr Dale Whelehan (@Daleyfurter) November 30, 2022
One thing I love about Abbott Elementary that I haven’t seen mentioned yet is the ethical, kind use of child performers on the show. I am an outlier who thinks kids should not act professionally, and on AE they barely do - they pretty much just act like regular kids— 1/5— Eliza Skinner (@elizaskinner) September 15, 2022
“The great @verge review of iPhone 14 Pro took a (literal) close look at the animations on a pixel level. Incredible.
They also reveal that Apple uses special hardware-based subpixel antialiasing to make them extra smooth. Which other company does this? https://t.co/70c2SACDAj”
Interestingly, the app was first dubbed “Find my Family”. Management (read: Steve) found the entire idea of location tracking deeply creepy. It led to a very long design process with dozens of beautiful and wacky app concepts to make it less… stalky and more friendly.— Sebastiaan de With (@sdw) August 20, 2022
Steve) found the entire idea of location tracking deeply creepy. It led to a very long design process with dozens of beautiful and wacky app concepts to make it less… stalky and more friendly.
Skeumorphism seemed to give designers more opportunities to “set the vibe” in ways that would make meaningful differences in user impressions like this