Simon Willison’s Weblog

The logo is still evolving, say designers. The Olympics logo is designed to be “hackable”—which is actually a great idea, but lawyers advised against unveiling that concept at the same time as the abstract shapes.

# 11th June 2007, 10:22 am / olympicslogo, lawyers, design

Poll results: 50.4% of respondents maximise windows. Interesting graphs that break down browser window maximisation by operating system.

# 17th April 2007, 4:22 pm / design, maximisation, ui, roger-johansson

Designing Google Reader’s trends. “But beyond the visualization, this serves as a good example of collecting and understanding the ambient information that flows through our digital lives.”

# 15th January 2007, 12:53 am / jeffrey-veen, google-reader, google, visualization, design

Apple’s Next-Generation Themes. Cabel’s spotted an Apple patent with screenshots of their in-house tool for creating resolution independent user interface themes.

# 8th January 2007, 11 pm / ui, design, apple, patent, cabel-sasser, osx