From the comments:
Chloe Kirton
Urg! How
Bryan Bell
I did it all in Photoshop with vector objects, layer effects, plus a repeating leather texture I overlaid. It’s fairly easy.
Cameron Clark
How did you replicate the stitching so well? Looking for a good stitch brush.
Bryan Bell
I drew one stitch as a vector object, then made it a smart object. Then I laid them out in a straight line pattern. Finally I Applied a slight Ripple Filter to the lot of them.
this strategy might come in handy for something I’m working on…
LEGO’s new Life of George iPhone app looks awesome.
It shows you a model to build, then you take a picture when you’re done. I like the head-to-head mode, too.
Most notably, we will be removing Items completely with the next release of Gowalla. While they have been a trademark feature of Gowalla since the beginning — one that our entire team poured much effort and passion into — fewer than half a percent of our active community makes use of them. It now causes more distraction than joy for the vast majority of our community.
Low usage? Duh, it used to be much easier to use, but then they buried the functionality.
Items were my favorite part of Gowalla. I found a moon rock at the Kennedy Space Center when I went down for a shuttle launch, then dropped it at my local planetarium. I picked up some Hitchhiking Ghosts at WDW and dropped them at bus stops and other places around my hometown, etc.
Sadly, I think my fun ride with Gowalla is over, and its time to move on.
This is brilliant. Melon Meter:
Melon Meter 1.0: Using real science to save you money!
☞ Fact: An average watermelon costs between $5 and 10$
☞ Fact: Market Research shows that up to 60% of watermelons bought are either overripe or underripe
☞ Fact: Watermelons don’t ripen off the vine, or in the store - they only decay.
☞ Fact: Melon Meter saves you money by helping you find a melon ready to eat!
Everyone hates spending hard earned money on a watermelon, anticipating a nice juicy, ready to eat melon, only to find the melon is not ready to eat….either too hard (under ripe) or way too soft (over ripe). And because watermelons don’t ripen off the vine, it makes it even more important to find the most ready to eat melon in the store. Our team has developed a tool (Melon Meter), using real science, to help you find the most “ready” melon in the store.
Don’t mind me, just setting the color scheme for the Magic Kingdom version of Magic Map ;-)
(Source: disney.go.com)
I’ve been spending most of my time this week working on this, and am finally ready to share a look at it. It still needs some polish, and the locations are just placeholders for the “real” content I have planned, but it should be ready to submit soon!
Edited: Dammit, flash only? Tumblr, I am disappoint.
A little peek behind the scenes as I plan out the custom UITableViewCells for the main list.
I wonder what the app is for? :p
Location Settings in [redacted]
The utility app I’m working on is heavy on location services and the compass. I want to give some control over the location access, and make sure it is easy to understand the effects when adjusting the settings.
When Auto-Locate is enabled, the compass switch is on and locked since there’s no point in running with the GPS on and compass off. When you disable Auto-Locate, the compass stays on, but the switch is unlocked so it is possible to turn it off.
The video is a recording of a portion of the back side of the app.
Note: I didn’t realize until I uploaded this that Vimeo doesn’t do mobile embeds unless you have a Plus account. So the video doesn’t play on iPhones and iPads. Dammit.
Working on a utility app, and as I start to close in on the final version of the front, its time to start thinking about what to put on the back.
A wild PROTOTYPE appeared!
One of my contractors busted up his wrist at a motorcycle safety class, and is gonna be out for 3 weeks. While I wait, I’m going to try to make the app he’s been working on. Since I’ll be seeing it a lot, I needed to do something for an icon, so I blueprint-ified a sketch of the icon that Chase is working on.
(Source: twitpic.com)
