January 2010
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How Apple hides the iPad’s dirty little secret with an optical illusion.
Here’s the iPad as you (probably) haven’t seen it before:
Like many others, at one point I found myself asking, “Wait… it’s a 4:3 screen?” It wasn’t because I was disappointed in the new specs; this was hours after I had seen actual images of the device. “I could have sworn it was widescreen!”
I wasn’t quite [...]
Intentionally unprofessional: Design techniques that could backfire
One of the worst things about design is that you can put a lot of work into something that comes out looking like, well… nobody put a lot of work into it at all. Here are a few techniques that could make you look like an amateur, even if you know what you’re doing.
Blur
Blurring is [...]