Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Steve Jobs once said, “Design is how it works.”
Ken Kocienda • Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
We kept using LCH for our theme generation, as it is one of the closest color spaces to the human eye and allowed us to deal with different elevations for our surfaces (e.g. background, foreground, panels, dialogs, and modals).
How we redesigned the Linear UI (part Ⅱ) - Linear Blog
Jobs' gift is so rare that it's likely even Apple hasn't been able to replace it. It's not a coincidence that the Apple products that frustrate me the most right now are all the ones with "Pro" in the name. The MacBook Pro, with its flawed keyboard and bizarre Touch Bar (I'm still using the old 13" MacBook Pro with the old keyboard, hoping beyond h... See more
Remains of the Day • Invisible asymptotes
I was the third consultant they hired, and the first not to address it as a “people issue.” What I saw was a legacy code issue. Their software was brittle and hard to work with.
David Scott Bernstein • Beyond Legacy Code: Nine Practices to Extend the Life (and Value) of Your Software
There was an overarching idea of a computer your mom could use. So the typefaces couldn’t look like those weird monospaced computer fonts. I looked at Helvetica and Times New Roman and the kinds