Intent & Purpose

Great for both services, and another small step for Apple moving away from reliance on Google/YouTube.

Really great post by Marco Arment about his experiences and the ‘early days’ at Tumblr. Replete with some great photos, too.

I’m not sure what I think yet, but it’s clear that Yahoo has made reinvigorating Flickr a top priority.

Email your friend, CC Square, put amount in subject line. Done.
Sounds brilliant.
(invite only for now)

via Very Nice Website

Finally.

Matt Gemmell:

Our industry is in the throes of an aesthetic shift. At one end of the spectrum, there’s the stitched leather and wood of iOS; at the other, the stark, ascetic information-spaces of Windows Phone. It’s more than a change of fashion: I think it highlights our continuing struggle to understand how to design and build products.

Almost gave me a heart attack. Fantastic.
From the director of Children of Men.

I’m down with fun concept designs as the next person, but just changing the look of things and animating it on a CG phone is about 3% of the work needed to make complex software feel right.

Not to mention the questionable decision of eschewing just about every single recognizable visual element that creates the iOS brand.

Like the Minimally-Minimal Microsoft concept, it’s fun, but good design has carefully considered constraints. Concept work does not.