http://blog.cocoia.com The Cocoia Blog is the website of Sebastiaan de With, a Dutch Icon and Interface designer. Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:25:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I turned 20 today, decisively terminating my teenager-hood. I can't say it'll bother me a lot, but I'm certainly curious in what the future will hold for me. The first 20 years of my life so far have been pretty great; I've left education, started my own company and started ... http://blog.cocoia.com/2008/04/28/sebastiaan-20/ Matt Gemmell, legendary coder of Mac OS X source code and programming fame, has posted an expansive review of Icon Resource on his blog. I genuinely feel like I learned a lot about what was previously something of a black art to me, and I couldn’t help but come away ... http://blog.cocoia.com/2008/04/16/matt-gemmell-reviews-icon-resource/ I have been noticing a disturbing trend in custom interface design of third party applications for Mac OS X. As it is no longer an exception for software developers to build interface elements that are entirely unique to their application, the threshold for customizing other, system-standard interface elements is also ... http://blog.cocoia.com/2008/04/12/swiss-interface-syndrome/ If you're eager to hear a bit more about my work, my person, and the whole story with Apple, I recommend you listen to Pomcast's latest English episode, where I and StuFF mc discuss Apple, graphical user interface design and a bunch of other things. http://blog.cocoia.com/2008/04/12/me-on-pomcast/ Uli Kusterer remarks how this week was full of visual UI goodness; from the blog post by Sean Patrick about designing and implementing resolution-independent Leopard-style buttons in Mac OS X, to the release of Icon Resource (featuring Alastair's interesting thoughts on the videos in the package) and a podcast about ... http://blog.cocoia.com/2008/04/06/ui-drawing-week-08/