Epicenter design from 37 signals, by Ryan singer

The process of 37 signals to create an app is really amazing, from the books you can feel how they get to the real thing really early in the process. 

In this video, you can see a real example of the process, Ryan through the steps of creating a web app including modeling, sketching, HTML, Photoshop explorations, and moving from static mockups to live running code. Each step is illustrated with a real example, including some live sketching and live HTML. 

There’s a great big beautiful tomorrow

There’s a great big beautiful tomorrow

Shining at the end of every day

There’s a great big beautiful tomorrow

And tomorrow’s just a dream away.


Man has a dream, and that’s the start

He follows his dream with mind and heart

and when becomes a reality

it’s a dream come true for you and me.

“The theme song, `Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow,’ had a wonderful positiveness about it. In a way, it was Walt’s theme song, because he was very positive about the future. He really felt that there was a great big beautiful tomorrow shining at the end of every day.” - Richard Sherman, the songwriter.

Source: Wikipedia

Good design is innovative.
Good design makes a product useful.
Good design is aesthetic.
Good design helps us to understand a product.
Good design is unobtrusive.
Good design is honest.
Good design is durable.
Good design is consequent to the last detail.
Good design is concerned with the environment.
Good design is as little design as possible.
Back to purity, back to simplicity.
Dieter Rams, head of design at Braun from 1955 - 1997. Quote found here. (via behrends)