Google Doodle celebrates the 15th birthday with interactive piñata

Doodle challenges users to release as many virtual sweets as possible by thwacking a star-shaped piñata with a stick. Google is celebrating its 15th birthday with an interactive doodle based on a Mexican piñata. The doodle comes in the form of a basic video game that challenges the user to release as many virtual sweets as possible by thwacking a star-shaped piñata with a stick. The doodle forms part of the celebration for Google’s 15th birthday, which has also seen the search engine create ‘Google in 1998’ – a fascinating... Read The Rest →

Instagram Gets A Mild iOS 7 Redesign With Edge-To-Edge Images

Instagram has been updated for Apple’s iOS 7 yesterday with a new design that puts photos front and center. The app has not been re-written or torn down for the logic of iOS 7 so much as trimmed and tucked to fit with the aesthetic. Instagram’s previous designs had already been winnowed a bit to make them feel more in line with the Android app, so the design didn’t have to pull a full 180. Instead, borders were removed to take the images full bleed, buttons were flattened and menu... Read The Rest →

40 Free Fonts for Flat Design

Flat design is one of the hottest web trends of 2013. Even before it was featured in the latest iOS7 redesign, many designers were already smitten with the simplistic and minimalistic design that is flat design. It is a combination of colors and typography having no use of textures, fancy 3D effects and drop shadows. Many designers, me included, thought that typography is a key component to the success of flat design. You can’t just use any font in a flat design, the fonts have to be specific. All the... Read The Rest →

10 Things You Didn’t Know That Dropbox Could Do

We live in an age when we want (and sometimes need) to access information at all times. This includes our own data and files — text documents, photographs, videos, music and more. That's why services like Dropbox and the cloud are so popular with the connected generation. Free of charge (with a paid upgrade option), Dropbox lets you upload your files to folders accessible anywhere there's an Internet connection. It eliminates the hassle of emailing yourself attachments and running into size limits. People can use Dropbox through the desktop app,... Read The Rest →

Google unveils new logo and navigation bar with apps launcher, rolling out over the next few weeks

Google announced a new logo and navigation bar for all its websites. The company says it will be rolling out the update across “most” Google products over the next few weeks. You can see the new navigation bar and Google logo in the following screenshot:   That Google logo is a bit small… or flat! Let’s take a closer look at the old logo and the new logo so you can see what’s changing. Here’s the old one: Here’s the new one: Those are the visual changes, but there are... Read The Rest →

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