“it’s a mellowing out of the visual indicators that people need to trigger the idea of a tappable element.”
Tim Green in Almost Flat (on Medium)
“Imagine a big dog with giant jowls shaking his head side to side.”
Disney animators offer principles for UI design: Motion And Animation (via Smashing Mag)
“You have all these images that surround reading a book, like curling up next to a fire with a cup of tea, and reading a book next to a wooden bookshelf. These things are important to the experience of reading.”
A Former iPhone UI Designer Defends Apple’s Fake-Leather Design Philosophy (on FastCo)
Not sure this works: make vertical space for header context by pushing everything below down. Visual affordances ought not take centre stage, so probably always wrong to actually move that stage.
