Linked List: June 28, 2013

Friday, 28 June 2013

Consensus on Ouya $99 Android Game Console: It Stinks 

Shocker.

Collaborate.com 

My thanks to Collaborate for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed. Collaborate is an easy-to-use, easy-to-understand, powerful tool for team collaboration and project management — all from a single, simple app.

You can set up the entire thing — from creating your account, inviting members, and creating private collaboration “Rooms” — entirely from your iPhone. They started with a mobile-first mindset, and it really shows. Collaborate is a great app, with some nice little touches. You can share from Box, Dropbox, Evernote, Google Drive, or email. Comments, likes, dislikes, notifications — everything you need for private, team collaboration.

Download Collaborate for iPhone today and see for yourself, or visit their website to learn more. Collaborate is free for small teams.

Otl Aicher’s 1972 Munich Olympics Design Work 

Color, type, iconography — seems like a huge influence on iOS 7. Run a Google image search and some of these just jump right out at you. (Thanks to DF reader Samuel Iglesias.)

Update 1: More examples, at Designspiration.

Update 2: The one I call out above (linked on “jump”) is in fact by Max Bill, set within Aicher’s grid. You can see Bill’s signature in the top right corner. (Thanks to James Goggin.)