Hand & Eye →

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I very much like the look of Hand & Eye's website. I'm also loving the organic forms of their lightning products and particularly the aesthetics of the terracotta A-Beam. There are also some great accompnaying images of its use as a minimal yet statement-piece quality lighting solution; one among them is the Fjord Office in clerkenwell designed by Studio Jenny Jones.

[Good UIdeas] Clicking Contact Us copies email address @ Maze

One long persistingly annoying adoption of practice seems to be the behaviour of linking a contact-us button to an email address. While there is nothing wrong with the inherent idea, time and time again it leads to an undesired outcome. The best someone can word is this tweet below by Mike Coutermarsh…

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How the Finder sidebar is perhaps slowing things down

I remember the day I was faced with coming in terms with the horrid OS X Lion update that came in the form of some greyed out monotone finder icons. In the following days, I could immediately sense I was spending longer amounts of time trying to accomplish basic operations of navigating within the sidebar. After denial…

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Routemaster by Heatherwick →

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One of my favourite examples of 'a better experience through design', is what I enjoy almost on a daily basis and hope is arriving when I'm stood at the bus stop waiting to go somewhere; the new generation Routemaster.

I love how significant a step up it feels from the other buses and how satisfying it feels to be on a public transport service that manages to delight. I recently stumbled upon The Vessel and was glad to know the architects behind it – Heatherwick – were also who worked on giving us the much-loved Routemaster.