Google testing new navigation design borrowed from Chrome

Cnet

Much better looking.

Google finds its design voice on iOS

TNW:

It all began with the release of a startlingly good iOS app for Google+. Clean, well put together on both iPhone and iPad, spare yet bold. Somehow very Google and very iOS at the same time.

Yes, they have been designing great apps, Google + makes Facebook look old, Google Maps is clean and simple, as Google Search and Gmail. They have learned how to design indeed.

Welcome to the Jony Ive Era at Apple

Hopefully this means a new redesign of iOS, the Fisher Price look is getting old.

Welcome to the Jony Ive Era at Apple

Chinese ‘iPhone 5′ cloner threatens Apple with legal action

Electronista:

The Chinese manufacturer of a phone based on the alleged “iPhone 5” design says it will sue Apple if it releases the expected device in China. GooPhone, the maker of the Android-based i5, claims to have patented the design in China, despite being created after supposed parts for Apple’s next iPhone surfaced online.

WTF?

Chinese ‘iPhone 5′ cloner threatens Apple with legal action

Apple changed the color of cars, says BMW designer

Fortune Tech:

Silver was the most popular exterior car color in America for nearly a decade. But while it remains beloved by automotive designers for best showing off a car’s styling, its unstinting argent reign was finally overthrown this year. By white. According to Sandy McGill, BMW Designworks’ lead designer in color, materials, and finish, this is Steve Jobs’ doing. “Prior to Apple, white was associated with things like refrigerators or the tiles in your bathroom. Apple made white valuable.”

Go figure.

Apple changed the color of cars, says BMW designer

Star Wars characters re-imagined as High School students in the 80’s.

Geek Tyrant

The unibody iPhone

Nice analysis of the alleged new iPhone.

The unibody iPhone

Crisis Of Design

Forbes:

“All this time we’ve been paying all our attention to Nokia, and concentrated our efforts on things like Folder, Bar, Slide, yet when our [product] is compared to the unexpected competitor Apple’s iPhone, the difference is truly that of Heaven and Earth,” according to the email. “It’s a crisis of design.”

Internal memo at Samsung.

Crisis Of Design

House inspired by the iPod.

FastCoDesign

Architect John Beckmann:

The house came to him in a dream, he says, and is far more closely related to the iPod.

FastCoDesign

The Windows logo is evolving backwards

You know what, the more I look at it, the more I like it.

The Windows logo is evolving backwards