Christopher Stringer, a longtime member of Apple's industrial design team, had one of the most memorable moments of the ongoing patent trial when he revealed that most Apple products are initially designed by a small group of just 15 or 16 employees sitting around a kitchen table.
While Stringer didn't name names, that group is almost certainly Apple's elite Industrial Design Group. There are plenty of other designers who work at Apple, but this group literally gives shape to Apple's products.
Many designers both new and old have a reason to love freebies. They can save you time on project work, plus it’s a good way to learn the ropes of structuring PSD files. Some of the best freebies I’ve ever found have been listed on the Dribbble network. And now going into July is a great time to reflect on some of the most recent releases in the community.
This collection of shots includes 25 brand new PSD/AI freebies for download. You can find links attached on the Dribbble page, or sometimes the authors will place links in a comment. All the shots have been released over the past few weeks – and they include some seriously high-quality designs! If you’ve got similar examples of new design freebies you can share in the post discussion area below.
Google's social network has climbed from 40 million users as of last October to 90 million; the news was posted on Google+ by Larry Page, Google's CEO.
He shared the information as part of other news tied to Google's fourth-quarter earnings report. Google+ seems to be one of the tech giant's bright spots for that quarter, with revenue and earnings underperforming. Not Google+, though.
This week iTunes got a little more Web savvy with a feature designed to clean up and beam up your music library with a little help from the cloud.
