Wednesday, October 14, 2009

iPhone GUI 3.0 PSD

Gone are the days when I was the only mobile designer I knew. Now everyone and their mama is creating UI's for the iPhone. The guys over at teehan+lax have provided us designers with an awesome resource, a PSD file of nearly every iPhone GUI asset.

It's not perfect, but it's as close as you're gonna get. I would prefer if every element was created as a shape or layer style, some are flattened so they aren't as easily edited. And the volume control knob isn't correct. But other than those minor flaws, this kit has saved my life numerous times.

http://www.teehanlax.com/blog/?p=1628

Setting Up Photoshop For Web, App and iPhone Development

Most people who have designed websites or apps in Photoshop will, at one point or another, have had issues trying to match colors in images to colors generated by HTML, CSS or code. This article aims to solve those problems once and for all.

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/10/12/setting-up-photoshop-for-web-app-and-iphone-development/

Monday, October 12, 2009

Font Bureau clashes with NBC over font licensing

NBC Universal and CNBC Inc are in some legal hot water with the type foundry The Font Bureau. A lawsuit claims both companies bought a single-seat license for some popular fonts, but later copied them to multiple computers and even sent copies to third parties.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/10/font-bureau-clashes-with-nbc-over-font-licensing.ars