IF YOU can remember the days of cassette tapes, leather-bound planners, and yellow legal pads, you may be aging out of Apple’s target demographic. At the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday, in its first post–Steve Jobs design overhaul, Apple unveiled its newest operating system, iOS 7: a flat, textureless interface, unencumbered by the metaphorical three-dimensional design flourishes its visionary leader once touted. What it signaled: Apple is embracing a generation that has come of age using screens and two-dimensional apps.
“There’s going to be lots of people under 20 who soon enough are not going to understand what [these textures] are—and a yellow notepad is not going to make sense, because they grew up on computers,” says Mark Gurman, an Apple enthusiast who writes for the website 9to5Mac and who broke news of the flat design in late April. [read]
The Desert Island
Some days, I am just downright sleepy. Maybe it’s the late night writing, constant travel, or my busy social schedule in New York. But every so often, even with a good night’s sleep, I get to the middle of my day and I just feel ready for a nap. I find myself dozing off at the computer mid- Z z z… oh, sorry.
This article was written for models BUT knowing how to ‘pose’ is something that is essential for photographers. Why? Well, most of us don’t work with seasoned models. We photograph ‘everyday people.” There are a lot of important factors that go into being a great photographer and one of the most overlooked factors is posing, IMO. Hope this helps. – Joe
As head of HubSpot’s creative and design team, I spend nearly every day acting as the translator between my designers and the rest of the company, particularly executives, marketers, and salespeople, (i.e. those folks whose jobs are often held to more formal or quantitative metrics). Obviously, it should come as no surprise that there is always at least some disconnect between designers and non-designers, especially considering the vast differences in both the day-to-day work and the success metrics of each group.
Over the past two years, I’ve had the pleasure of speaking with 100+ business owners from different industries and at different stages of growth about what it takes to succeed as an entrepreneur. I first shared what I learned at a National Association of Women Business Owners Leadership Conference in Philadelphia last year, and recently dusted off my take-aways, in the form of eight cardinal rules, for a presentation last week. So, here goes in no particular order: [
Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated areas in the world. Seven million people living in 423 square miles (1,096 sq km). The local government makes no attempt to hide this fact, noting the superlative on a fact-sheet (PDF). Although 49% of the city’s residents live in public or subsidized housing, the city has rents 35% higher than New York City. The Chinese city’s government has gone so far as to enact new taxes on investment in real estate to try to slow the rise in home prices, which now stand at nearly $1,300 a square foot.
