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Immediate feedback when data is unavailable

Immediate feedback is one of the core principles of good user interface design. But what if the data is unavailable for the feedback?

Ugly and neat mail

Ugly mail defames the sender. It may later occur that the sender was a good person, but life is unjust

Spacing separates, lines join

People often draw lines to separate things. They should, instead, move the things apart

Ångström: no favorites

With Ångström, we were thinking about a way to make the units you use most, accessible more easily

Grids with no gutters

The popular way to make grids for your layouts is to account for gutters, like this

Ångström Style System for Cocoa

While developing Ångström, the unit converter for the iPhone (check it out!), Alex Babaev and I have come up with the Ångström Style System

Left and right

One of the most used wayfinding method is a phone call. A person calls their friend and gets some voice instructions on how to get somewhere

Ångström, the unit and currency converter

My friend and a great iOS developer Alex Babaev approached me with an idea to make a unit converter for the iPhone

Francesco Franchi on form and substance

Francesco Franchi, in Designing News

What is Brick?

So this thing, Brick. What is it? It says

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