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I owned the first Android phone, the HTC tmobile G1. You know what it reminded me of? A HTC Tytn 100 (picture of the phone) which was released in 2006, over a year before the iphone. The HTC Tytn 100 had a resistive touchscreen instead of a capacitive touchscreen but the entire market was moving towards capacitive touchscreens by the time the iphone was released and contrary to apple fans' belief that the iphone was the first phone ever to have a capacitive touchscreen, it was the LG Prada (as far as I remember). Also contrary to Apple fans' belief, Apple did not pioneer capacitive touchscreen technology, LG, Samsung and Sony poured billions of dollars and a number of years into getting the technology consumer-device-ready.

If you were talking about icon grids, the first phone with an icon grid that I owned was the Nokia 6600. I am sure it wasn't the first phone that had an icon grid. Do you know another thing that phone had? Copy and paste. Remind me again, when did Apple introduce that 'feature' to ios?

Are the Fontspring matcherator and the Fontsquirrel matherator the same thing?

Whatfontis ?
Identitfyfont?

Here's a list of seven more microaggressions.

Indeed. And what's this nonsense about making an exception for Flash - Mozilla demoed a javascript-based flash player two years ago. What happened to that?

You know, it does kinda look like the original Xeroc PARC design: http://netdna.webdesignerdepot...

Whew! Now finally people can stop that "Apple ripped off Xerox PARC" meme!

You know, it does kinda look like the original Xeroc PARC design: http://netdna.webdesignerdepot...

Well the Apple line wasn't really intended for home use

Oh really ? Please tell me more !

except it doesn't record 24/7 only when you tell it to and it only has a 5 hour battery life anyway very unlikely to be used the way you suggest.

Hint: Try to look beyond today.

Does it have an "one the air" indicator so others in the room know they are being recorded?
Do you see in your wildest dreams a solution to short battery life?
Do you think it will always look like it does today?

Look at this picture of the first Cell Phone.
Now look at your current cell phone.
Now look back at the picture.

See any difference in form or functionality? Now project similar reductions in size and additional functionality onto Google Glass.

Think beyond the end of your nose.

The Benefon Esc! was the first phone with an internal GPS receiver. PDA users had been using their phones with external GPS receivers for years at that point. The Nokia 7600 was the first with a 3G radio.

Source:

http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/05/the-evolution-of-cell-phone-design-between-1983-2009/

Actually, if you look at the Xerox Star Desktop and the original Macintosh Desktop, they don't look much alike. No menu bar, window borders look a lot different, scrollbars look different, etc.

It's better as progressive enhancement http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2010/08/a-complete-guide-to-progressive-enhancement/ .

Bzzt! Thanks for playing!

If you look at the original Macintosh keyboard, you will see no "Open Apple". Apple wanted to use the same keyboards for the Apple IIgs as they used for Macintoshes and since the IIgs had no command key, they put both labels on the keys.

So if you call it the "Open Apple" key, you're obviously not an original Macintosh user. GTFO.

(That said, my theory as to why Apple left the symbol long after the Apple II series was discontinued is that it's easier to tell someone on the phone, "Look for the key with the little Apple logo on it." than "Look for the key with the cloverleaf/european 'place-of-interest' symbol." Of course, if you needed that explained to you, GTFO.) :^D

For general design, GoMedia's 'zine is great. http://www.gomediazine.com/
I don't read many web design blogs anymore, but Web Designer Depot isn't bad. http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/
Even better, Script & Style: http://scriptandstyle.com/
Also, Usability Post: http://www.usabilitypost.com/
For typography, I Love Typography is an incredible blog. http://ilovetypography.com/

That's John Knoll's wife in the beach sample photo? Holy crap! Lucky guy.

I have experienced the Uncanny Valley but not necessarily in a bad way. At the Fort Worth Modern Art Museum the artist, Ron Mueck, for the first set of the sculptures here: http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/11/mind-blowing-hyperrealistic-sculptures/ was on display and it was mind blowing. The woman in the bed made you feel 4 years old again because of the size - she's huge - like 10x normal - but perfect in detail. The skin has individual hair follicles, the eyes are moist looking, fingernails are slightly translucent - amazing detail. The two old woman are also perfect - but at 1/2 size normal I couldn't help be stare, up close my sense of perception was skewed and I started to imagine them moving, like you do with dead people (my families catholic, so I've got to stare at all kinds of dead ppl)
Highly recommended if you can catch up to one of his shows.

Honestly, who cares - they're both designed by people who know little about creating decent websites.

I don't know how you got away with this statement since it's just out-and-out wrong.

One of these sites exhibits nearly identical behavior with Javascript turned off (see other comments attached to this article for detail), bleeding edge technologies with graceful degradation, good semantic markup, good consistency in appearance and behavior across browsers, no detected accessibility errors, and an acceptance and embracing of open standards. It even comes extremely close to validating (those errors might even be explainable by the warning given on the page regarding "cutting edge technology"). The other? Not so close.

For some additional backup from the likes of webdesignerdepot.com and others

The Apple website is one of the best websites out there due to its ease of use, functionality and the beautiful environment that it creates.

In terms of web design, Apple.com is a very good exemple of clean semantic code and stunning graphics.

Admittedly, I'm an Apple fanboy, but come on. Even the most unabashed of Apple haters should be able to agree that there was a team of skilled and capable people behind its creation. It's by no means perfect, but there's a reason it's cited time and again as one of the best-designed sites on the Web, and it's not just because of the pretty pictures.

Shouldn't a critique of web design at least be done by people who are skilled in the art? Just look at their site. I am no professional web designer, but even I know that you probably shouldn't be using heavy, bright, noisy headers and you probably shouldn't be putting such long articles into a single un-adjustable column that is what, 800 pixels wide?

Joomla is evil. That's all there is to it. The only way to get the functionality you would ever really need beyond basic content management is to pay large sums of money for commercial modules. The community is huge in the worst possible way. There are a million modules for one problem and it is near impossible to find the right one.

        The interface is deplorable. None of the methods of content management make any sense, and it is obviously not meant to be user friendly considering the top dollar training offered for the system. If there were ever a CMS to avoid, this would be it.

"How to Choose the Right CMS" - http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/01/how-to-choose-the-right-cms/ [webdesignerdepot.com]

Joomla is evil. That's all there is to it. The only way to get the functionality you would ever really need beyond basic content management is to pay large sums of money for commercial modules. The community is huge in the worst possible way. There are a million modules for one problem and it is near impossible to find the right one.

The interface is deplorable. None of the methods of content management make any sense, and it is obviously not meant to be user friendly considering the top dollar training offered for the system. If there were ever a CMS to avoid, this would be it.

"How to Choose the Right CMS" - http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/01/how-to-choose-the-right-cms/