Linked List: April 15, 2013

Monday, 15 April 2013

Boston 

Such a great city. My best thoughts to everyone there.

Motion as an Aspect of Interface Design 

Julie Zhuo, product design director of Facebook Home:

It’s no secret that many of us on the Facebook Design team are avid users of QuartzComposer, a visual prototyping tool that lets you create hi-fidelity demos that look and feel like exactly what you want the end product to be. We’ve given a few talks on QC in the past, and its presence at Facebook (introduced by Mike Matas a few years back) has changed the way we design. Not only does QC make working with engineers much easier, it’s also incredibly effective at telling the story of a design.

Physics engines are becoming essential to modern user interface design.

WSJ: Microsoft Working on Smart Watch 

Of course they are.

Pixate 

My thanks to Pixate for sponsoring last week’s DF RSS feed. Pixate asks a simple question: What if styling apps were as simple as styling websites? Pixate does just that. It includes styling, keyframe animation, transitions, and even Twitter Bootstrap. But it’s entirely native mobile code for iOS and Android, not embedded webviews. Purchase Pixate for iOS now and you get the 1.1 beta immediately, the Android beta soon, and an Android license when it ships later this year. Use coupon code “DARING10” and save 10 percent.