The requests we get from our clients for “social networking” type tools and features has grown exponentially over the past two years. To make a user experience relevant, easy, secure, means that an application will need to send email notifications to that user (to register, to tell them of friend’s messages, to send them newsletters [...]
Having started out my design education and career in a more print-focused direction, one of the major shocks of web design to me was the notion of “the fold”. The fold is an outdated term referring to a literally folded newspaper; in theory, all of the headlines and important content on the front page would [...]
What do you do when someone claims you stole from them? We were recently contacted by a well regarded designer who felt that the some of the iPhone icons we were giving away for free, bore too close a resemblance to his own icons (which he was selling from his site), and that we were [...]
Update: You can get the Retina Display version here: http://blog.twg.ca/2010/11/retina-display-icon-set/ Lately we’ve been getting more involved in developing iPhone apps for our clients. iPhone apps have their own size and UI standards, so we decided to speed things up for you by sharing some clean and simple iPhone toolbar icons. Feel free to download this [...]
As long time fans of TED, The Working Group is proudly sponsoring tomorrow’s TEDxTO event at the Theatre Passe Muraille. Dom and I look forward to meeting fellow attendees, and watching the great line-up of speakers (13). Give us a poke and say hi if you see us there. If you’re looking to catch the [...]
The future of web typography seems to be almost here with Firefox 3.5 supporting @font-face, making web-safe fonts a thing of the past. Through CSS3′s linking/embedding of any font file, @font-face opens the floodgates to the millions of font options available to designers. The design possibilities are extremely exciting, but in the coming @font-face infancy, [...]
Snow Leopard is out and I like having the latest and greatest, so I bought a new hard drive and clean installed Snow Leopard on it. This meant that I had the opportunity to reinstall my development environment with the benefit of a few years of experience and the advice of my fellow TWG’ers. Here’s [...]