Tag Archives: design

Awesome details

Posted on Monday January 30, 2012 by Ruben

I like small details in software. Here’s a nice one I spotted the other day: The Amazon Kindle app for iPad changes its background depending on the hour of the day. It even has some very nice effects, for instance, … Continue reading →

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HTML5 for old browsers / browser testing

Posted on Saturday January 22, 2011 by Ruben

HTML5 is a great improvement for the web and like most designers, I try to use it in my web development work. There’s one little caveat to be aware of, which bit me in the behind quite hard recently: not … Continue reading →

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A tale about design: part two

Posted on Saturday June 5, 2010 by Ruben

Last summer, at GCDS, I had some very pleasant developer-designer interaction experiences. I blogged about this. A week ago the annual Libre Graphics Meeting was organized in Brussels and again there was a very good cooperation between designers and developers. … Continue reading →

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A tale about design

Posted on Friday July 17, 2009 by Ruben

Last week at GCDS, we rented a minivan and road-tripped around the island. One Banshee hacker (Bertrand), one F-Spot hacker (me) and six guys from the GNOME art team (Garrett, jimmac, Benjamin, Andreasn, Vinicius and mpt). From a risk management … Continue reading →

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