Realigning the new Twitter

Recently Twitter redesigned its web interface. The new panel-esque design really encourages to use the web app instead of having to tweet with desktop clients like Twitterrific or Tweetie. The interactions work as expected, and somewhat remind me of those found on Twitter for iPhone, which makes perfect sense since it’s Twitter’s official iPhone app. Overall: impressive work, and thumbs up.

But I think there are still a couple of corners that need polish and fine tuning. So, this past weekend, I thought I could exercise myself by realigning the new Twitter; specifically, by improving white space, align the layout to a grid, and above all, sprucing up typography.

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A better Gmail

I love Gmail. Since its release, a couple of years ago as a Beta, I got hooked with its speed, but most importantly, with its concept of wrapping similar emails as conversations. It really was and example of “thinking out of the box” in those days. In fact, one of the features I miss every day in my iPhone’ Mail app is to wrap emails as conversations… they’re just so useful once you learn it!
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“Me moaning about shoddy UI inconsistencies and mistakes in Adobe products and how they get shitter with every release and especially since they took on Macromedia’s idiotic philosophies.” Via @mike9r.



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