The semi-frequent musings of David Kaneda, designer and web developer at Google.
Follow @davidkanedaThe car does, more or less, have it. It stays true around the first bend. Near the end of the second, the Acura suddenly veers near an SUV to the right; I think of my soon-to-be-fatherless children; the car corrects itself. Amazed, I ask Hotz what it felt like the first time he got the car to work.
“Dude,” he says, “the first time it worked was this morning.”
The Making of the Leica M9-P, Hermès Edition (via Bhanu)
A personal look at falling behind on Buckets and where I plan to go from here. Should explain why things have been a bit quiet around these parts.
Think with Paper & Pencil
FiftyThree is a product company that gets it. I can’t think of another company right now that is so well tuned-in to their product management: An undeniable focus on simplicity, consistently innovative interaction concepts, high-quality releases, synchronized marketing—it’s all incredibly impressive. Definitely looking forward to trying these new features out.
Inbox is an awesome new email client from the Gmail team. I’ve had the pleasure of test-driving this for a few months, and I have to say: It’s an incredibly well-polished app with a very smart set of features.
It combines everything I like about Gmail, Mail.app, and Mailbox app, removes the features I don’t use, and absolutely shines as an example of Material Design.
I also love the fact that Google’s not just positioning it as “The Next Gmail,” but rather as an all new product—and it looks like it will be supporting a variety of other email services as well.
Really tremendous work and a huge congrats to all my colleagues that took part in shipping this.
This is one beautiful electric car: The Renovo Coupe.
Really diggin’ this whole Material Design thing. I give it about a year or two until this level of animation polish becomes the standard for modern web apps as well.
(Source: youtube.com)
Input is a flexible system of fonts designed specifically for code by David Jonathan Ross. It offers both monospaced and proportional fonts, all with a large range of widths, weights, and styles for richer code formatting.
Impressive. As far as I know, it’s the first programming font that’s built to serve a mixture of serif and sans-serif as style differentiators within code.
I was going to post this as a quote, but there are just too many to choose from. Some superb writing from @iA.