{"id":38,"date":"2008-07-16T22:17:55","date_gmt":"2008-07-17T04:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teakpepper.com\/?p=38"},"modified":"2008-07-16T22:17:55","modified_gmt":"2008-07-17T04:17:55","slug":"apples-latest-design-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teakpepper.com\/teakpepper\/2008\/07\/16\/apples-latest-design-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple’s Latest Design Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apple wins a ton of design awards.\u00a0 I’m including this one on the blog for two reasons.<\/p>\n

– It is an especially prestigious award<\/p>\n

– It was a project I produced<\/p>\n

I.D. magazine has recognized the best in design in its Annual Design Review since 1954.\u00a0 This year’s awards were announced, and the redesign of apple.com was recognized with distinction in the interactive category.\u00a0 This was my first project at Apple, and I had the pleasure of working with an amazing team.\u00a0 This is what I.D. had to say<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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There was some initial grumbling about bestowing yet another design honor on Apple, but in the end, the jurors had no choice: \u201cIt\u2019s like the U.S. team at the Olympics,\u201d Vinh said. \u201cYou can\u2019t fault them for doing everything right.\u201d Apple\u2019s redesign of its worldwide consumer sites last year may not have gotten as much press as the iPhone or the Macbook Air, but the makeover is just as emblematic of the computing giant\u2019s relentless focus on improving the end-user experience. Gone are the oft-imitated aqua navigation tabs; in their place is a metallic bar that better reflects the company\u2019s current product offerings. The new nav floats over a wider page layout, making the site feel uncluttered. Search functionality has also improved, returning listings for products, downloads, movie trailers, iTunes songs, and more, all in a well-organized results menu similar to Spotlight on a Mac desktop. The site has also benefited from its use of Ajax, improving performance and allowing for nifty features like the collapsible secondary navigation panels, which Wickens called \u201creally clever.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s one of my favorite sites,\u201d Pitaru remarked, \u201ceven though I don\u2019t own one of their machines.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thanks I.D. magazine!\u00a0 Thanks team!<\/p>\n

I’ve often thought about the commonalities between Danish design ethos and what we do at Apple.\u00a0 Perhaps I’ll write more about that at a later date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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