That thing here that elsewhere might look a lot like a linked list.
Speaking of Material Design, these remixes of OS X/iOS app icons based on Material Design principles are not terrible. Some of them are downright nice, in fact. My personal faves are the Finder and Photos icons. The post wraps up by highlighting some great animation work that has been applied to some of Google’s app icons.
Back in 2014, Google published the material design specification with a goal to provide guidelines for good design and beautiful UI across all device form factors. Today we are releasing our effort to bring this to websites using vanilla CSS, HTML and JavaScript. We’re calling it Material Design Lite (MDL).
I love the overall aesthetic of Google’s material design specification and I’m excited they’re bringing it to the web with this new, easy to implement library. Now, if only I can come up with a good project/excuse to start playing with it …
It’s probably not the Hangouts update Android users have been expecting, but Hangouts 4.0 rolled out today for iOS users and brings a slick new user interface and a few other tricks along with it.
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While we have yet to hear a peep out of Google, we’re crossing our fingers that an Android version isn’t too far behind. With “Update Wednesday” soon approaching, it could be no more than a few days away although we wont get our hopes up. Maybe Google will finally allow Android users to send video clips — like they already do on iOS — as well?
Does Google update their apps for iOS first because that’s where the users are or because it’s easier1 on iOS? Or is it a little bit of column A, little bit of column B?
So why is that public URL more secure than it looks? The short answer is that the URL is working as a password. Photos URLs are typically around 40 characters long, so if you wanted to scan all the possible combinations, you’d have to work through 10^70 different combinations to get the right one, a problem on an astronomical scale.
Or as we like to call it in the biz, “security by obscurity”.
Just last night, I was talking to a couple of friends about how I need to winnow down the list of podcasts I subscribe to. Today I learned, right on cue, two of my favorite podcast personalities have joined forces for a new podcast, Reconcilable Differences, on Relay FM. John Siracusa. Merlin Mann. ’Nuff said. Podcast playlist downsizing postponed.
Wow, Google really is taking this Material Design thing seriously.
Note to readers from the future: I apologize in advance for the inevitable pivot Google will make in their design philosophy, calling it something like Matter or Fluid or something like that within the next 5 years.
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If that’s as literal as some are suggesting, this could be the most interesting Google I/O yet.
I’m still on the fence about getting an Apple Watch, but there are some very enticing entries here. The most intriguing to me are RunKeeper, Chipotle1, Calcbot2, and Clear.
Ben Thompson with an insightful take on Twitter’s past, present, and future paths in ‘Twitter and What Might Have Been’:
Still, even though all of Twitter’s decisions are understandable, I can’t shake the feeling that the company could have chosen a very different path.
Inspiring. I strive for this level of thought and attention with every project I take on.
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