In yet another example of how tablet computing is drastically changing the consumer landscape, online retail store giant Amazon is testing a new website design geared toward tablet users, reports The Next Web.
The new design could be in response …
Scott Croyle only just took over as the new design head at mobile device company HTC, but the former vice president of design already has big plans.
In the near future, the smartphone and tablet maker will “concentrate on delivering …
The list of iconic designs Steve Jobs made possible is long. But his most brilliant and ambitious design may be Apple itself.
Jobs, who announced his resignation as Apple’s CEO yesterday, is rightly hailed as one of the most design-savvy …
Samsung has cited a scene from the science fiction classic 2001: A Space Odyssey as a legal defense against Apple in the continuing patent battle between the two companies.
In a brief opposing Apple’s request for a preliminary injunction on …
Microsoft engineers spoke publicly for the first time yesterday about how they built the Kinect motion sensing system, offering a rare glimpse inside the secret world of product design.
After being taken to task for designing Xbox 360 game consoles …
Netflix is testing out a new, simplified interface for its ‘Just for Kids’ section in a bid to make it easier for children to find shows to watch. It’s unclear how long the new features have been in place, but …
Weebly, a startup that offers popular easy-to-use website building tools, launched a new designer platform today aimed at helping designers build sites faster, manage more clients and retain their own branding.
The Weebly Designer Platform is a content management system …
Google+ looks unlike anything Google has ever produced, and that’s a good thing. Gone are the seemingly endless variations on blue color schemes and vain attempts at absolute minimalist design (see: Gmail, Google Calendar). In their place, Google has created …
Facebook has announced its acquisition of Push Pop Press, maker of a slick and celebrated iPad app called Our Choice.
The terms of the deal have not been disclosed. Push Pop Press was co-founded by Apple designer Mike Matas and …
HTC chief innovation officer Horace Luke has left the company for personal reasons.
Luke has been with HTC since 2006, and played a key role in HTC’s remarkable rise from an ordinary Taiwanese contract manufacturer to a significant smartphone brand …
The creative minds behind the beautiful infographics found on finance service Mint launched a public beta site for its new startup Visual.ly today.
Visual.ly’s service is similar to document-sharing site Scribd in that it provides an easy way for people …
YouTube is testing a gorgeous new redesign of its website called Cosmic Panda, which features an overhauled user interface, less white space and additional customization of YouTube channels.
Despite being the most popular online video service in the world, YouTube’s …
The new version of video-chat application Skype for Comcast’s Xfinity TV service focuses on providing a user-friendly experience for people who spend more time in front of a television than a computer, according to employees who worked on the app’s …
Google Calendar just got a lot less ugly. The web calendar service was revamped this morning as a part of Google’s new focus on user experience.
Judging from what we’re seeing in the new Calendar today, I’m excited to see …
Facebook is testing a new homepage design that keeps advertisements and menu navigation visible when you scroll up or down the page, reports Inside Facebook.
The design is a departure from all previous incarnations of Facebook’s homepage and borrows design …
Microsoft is apparently using some recent design innovations from Windows Phone 7 and Office in early test versions of Windows 8, including aspects of its mobile Metro user interface and Office’s Ribbon.
The news comes from a series of leaked …
A startup called DesignPax says that it’s creating a new way for small businesses to work with designers — and now it’s bringing that model to ad retargeting companies AdRoll and Retargeter.
Chief executive and co-founder Ayal Ebert compared the …
Phone manufacturers can’t just focus on cramming the most powerful chips in their devices nowadays — they have to have a certain glamour, too, according to a panel of top phone manufacturing executives.
Phone manufacturer HTC’s success has a lot …
You could call Jan Chipchase the Indiana Jones of product design. He lives in Shanghai, has a Japanese wife and just returned from a research trip in the north of Uganda, an area recently controlled by the notorious military group …
BlackBerry-maker RIM announced today that it’s acquiring Swedish design firm The Astonishing Tribe (TAT) to help sex up the user interface of its newest mobile operating system.
TAT is well-known for its attractive user interfaces. The company was chosen by …
