nitzu 🫧
@nitzukai
2D & 3D artist / graphic designer / UI designer member of @dsktpGeneration
File over app File over app is a philosophy: if you want to create digital artifacts that last, they must be files you can control, in formats that are easy to retrieve and read. Use tools that give you this freedom. File over app is an appeal to tool makers: accept that all…
@.Spotify which one of your genius UI designers thought it'd be a good idea to reduce the spacing on the mobile player to make the lyrics and artist details more prominent? years of muscle memory just went out the window, not to mention how it's now harder to reach the buttons
some people are failing to see what I'm trying to show in this post, having a tantrum while trying to prove me something that's unrelated to it, and blocking me over it chill.
So apparently, the icons on the XMB menu of the PS3 have Liquid Glass-like distortions and refractions. Sony is always ahead of the curve.
Interestingly, this goes for almost all things. Signs/sign painting. Carpentry. Ceramics. Icon design. Everything has been optimized for easy creation, which eroded the main barrier to entry: having to master a craft’s complex tools & methods, which led to better products.
Fine craftsmanship is a singular rarity in this day and age. It is nearly non-existent. It used to be commonplace not so long ago.
Often this era's transparent design is equated to contemporary tchochkes but the underlying reason was very different, i.e. expose the beauty of the internals, to celebrate its construction. Contemporaneity is offended by a single set-screw hole. It's obssesed with matching…
Apple Studio Display (2000)
I think I'll start doing a challenge called "stop using your stupid addictive phone and use your computer instead"
Windows Marketplace on Windows Vista reimagined (concept)
