Thursday, Apple welcomed the general public and members of the press to the scheduled grand opening of its breathtaking new flagship retail store and amphitheater at Milan’s Piazza del Liberty square. Italy's seventeenth Apple retail location and its first based on next-generation Apple retail design comes with a dramatic glass fountain on the outside.
On Thursday, Apple announced the introduction of new design resources for Apple developers for Mac and Apple Watch. The company's Human Interface Guidelines now include AppKit UI elements for designing Mac apps like Sketch and Photoshop, plus dozens of new UL elements for watchOS apps. There are also new watch templates for designing complications, a color guide, and new text styles.
Netflix has shown off its overhauled apps for set-top boxes, such as the fourth-generation Apple TV and Apple TV 4K, that revolves around a slide-out navigation menu on the lefthand side housing useful shortcuts such as Search, Home, Series, Movies, My List and New.
As it does every year during WWDC, Apple has announced the winners of this year's Design Awards. These awards are typically given out to apps and games that set themselves apart for any number of reasons including user experience, functionality, audio and visual design, and more.
Jony Ive sat down with specialized watch magazine Hodinkee to talk Apple Watch.
Google I/I, the search giant's annual developers conference, is currently underway and the search giant just announced a whole new Google News app for iPhone and iPad that takes advantage of artificial intelligence and machine learning to bring you the stories you're most likely to care about.
Facebook at yesterday's F8 developers conference in California made good on the promise that it'd declutter the Messenger app by implementing design changes and a darker appearance.
Google today announced major improvements to Gmail on the web.
Snapchat may be planning to revert one of the biggest changes in its recent redesign.
You could argue that Apple's Scott Forstall-era iPhone software gave digital skeuomorphic designs a bad name, especially after skeuomorphism escalated to an obnoxious level in iOS 6 which culminated with Forstall's departure and the Great Flattening of iOS.
A new report out of Korea suggests that Apple's next iPhone X update will feature a smaller TrueDepth camera resulting in a smaller notch, too, with 2019 models potentially removing the notch entirely.
iOS 12 should bring some notable interface improvements to the overall user experience, and the upcoming changes reportedly include a thoroughly overhauled Stocks app.