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Remembering the old saying, “Hindsight is always 20/20”, I’d like to retro-actively apologize for the signal-to-noise ratio I’ve contributed to the latter in this thread.

The reality of someone...

Your train of thought is flawless, Paul.

But as long as I own an icon editor, my Desktop will look the way I want it to, because I own a personal computer, I'm the person, and it does not own me....

Hi Paul—

I myself never described Mac mobile, flat icons as "ugly". The term "ugly" is merely something I saw over and over again in a Google search using "ios 7" as the criteria for a search.
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I'd like to partially dig myself out of this discussion where "flat" is new but also addresses the needs of mobile users with small screens.

I'm not sure exactly why Microsoft wanted to build a...

Gary Priester pointed out an excellent deal on the Bodoni family of fonts at Check out the Bodoni Family deal here/Fonts.com. I've dropped some chump change in the past, getting both desktop and...

Hmmm. I'd heard that an elephant was a horse designed by a committee. Given the current state of the US government, the elephant was probably designed by a sub-committee.

@ Eric—Ah, there's the...

I'd like to emphasize that FF doesn't work well with Xara Designer Pro.

But it does work. You just should either lock the effect after applying it, or export the texture as a bitmap from within...

Please let me rephrase what I'd originally written, mot because I don't enjoy listening to the feelings of others, but because I guess I off-topiced myself.

My point is that within every movement,...

Nope. Not unless we're talking about 90% of the science we thought was accurate in the 1950s, choosing VHS over the beta videotape format, or believing that Gilligan's Island represented the apogee...

Gosh, Paul, I truly thought I was being only a little biased, and not completely trashing the flat look!

And admittedly, I put together this image in great haste; it wasn't my intention to skew...

That's why the coders and the artsy people should work together, as we are now.

:)

-g

Earlier this week, the ios7 was partially shown off, and with it, Apple’s collective kiss of death to the skeuomorphic paradigm for a desktop or bookshelf. “Skeuomorphic" is indeed a real word, and...

@Steve,

There are two things I'd like to mention from an art and a usability thing, three, actually:

The example you posted is indeed dark. In fact, it's too dark. And changing colors to...

@Grace—

I, probably for one (!), believe we need a combination headmaster/air traffic controller for this project, because the threads turn to anarchy and entropy every third post as not everyone...

To paraphrase Albert Einstein, “Originality is directly proportional to your success in hiding your source.”

It doesn’t bother me in the least that XaReg’s graphic there looks like a modified...

I wish they'd bundle the 520 keyboard with the 320 optical mouse, although I think you can buy them separately and spend a little more money total.

The 320 kb isn't a good match for my ham hands!...

Hi Eric and welcome to the discussion.

I for one am against compromising a good UI design just because the programmers have opted for a default library of common controls to avoid using bitmaps.
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If I have a vote, I'd stay away from copying someone else's competing product artwork. Not only is it bad form, but we have dozens of innovative designs right here on this...

Okay, this is "local" information: we live in the USA, and some of the details to follow might not be relevant in other countries:

The Logitech Model 520 combo has served me reliably for more than...

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The UI Thread-post graphics and ideas here!


My Best,

Gary

I love your art, Frank!

It's superb.

Sad to say, though, that when XaReg was posted in a different thread, Steve or John had the idea of using the Registry cube and darkened 5 tiles on one side...

If it was "The Best of...", I wouldn't mind, Stygg.

If it were "Let it Bleed", you'd suddenly find yourself locked out of tg, and receiving hundred of thousands of Canadian Pharmacy adverts.

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Hey, Rick—

I was on a train from New York to Chicago, going 85mph, when a the pilot of a plane traveling from Phoenix to Chicago, carrying watermelons, asked me...

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Very nice work, and the...

No, it was fear, actually, Rik.

I stay immobile=I don't use the computer=we starve to death.

:)

Ouch, ouch, ouch, ****,

-g

Thanks, all.

I'm just seeing how the pain killers are holding up this morning for the first time at my PC in a week.

-g