Bookmark’d is a series of great articles and links, hand-picked from my bookmarks folder.
There are a lot of apps with fantastic looking User Interfaces. The point is, especially if everything feels just “right” and the application is very easy-to-use, the UI you’re looking at is most likely the result of countless hours of concepts, testing and fine tuning. I think it’s interesting how those apps came into being and I’d like to share a couple of articles, where designers documented their apps design process:
Cultured Code, the creators of Things Mac & iPhone wrote an interesting in-depth report about the design process of the Things iPhone User Interface.
Read it here: Designing the UI of Things for iPhone
Fontcase is an elegant font manager for Mac. It was designed by Bohemian Coding and has won an Apple Design Award in 2009. Pieter Omvlee, the developer of Fontcase wrote about the UI design process on Macstories.
Check it out: Designing Fontcase