Curious about what will be introduced and what not. Don't think there are big hardware things coming up. Maybe a new Nexus 7 or an update of the Nexus 4.

Things I'm expecting are leaning more towards ChromeOS and Android integration, the long rumoured Babel and more Drive integration in other Google services with Chrome and ChromeOS as a starting point/framework to rule them all.

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Getting into mobile app development is hard, somewhat impossible for me it seems. Last week I've received an interesting assignment to create a mobile application for a website. Just a simple one, which offers news, media and some columns.

Somehow I get lost inside the code. I know my fair share of HTML(5) and CSS(3). I've managed to create my own WordPress theme on my website that even works responsive. But the strange thing is…if it gets any more complex than that I'm totally lost. It seems I'm missing that common logical thinking that developers do have.

Luckily I'm a graphic designer / multimedia artist mainly, but damn it would be easy to be a bit more skilled in coding.

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One for a popular 7 inch tablet. The app is for mechanics to utilize it during work. It needs to be simple, fast and straight forward. Darn that's pretty difficult, but manageable nonetheless

Only problem is, there a lot of screen real estate available. But using all that makes it way to cluttered. So the choice went to make it phone like on a tablet, well a sort of in between… I think that will keep it clear and simple enough and doesn't look like a upscaled phone app.

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I’ve created this logo and business card for a company that specializes in helping people that suffer from some form of dementia. It was one of those assignments which were really challenging due to some personal circumstances which made things a bit more…well, real.  Those same circumstances are what makes it worth while in the end though. I’m really glad with the end result. Although dementia is one of the worst “diseases” (in my opinion) the design stresses the positive side of getting help. Check out the business card design after the break. » Continue Reading: Portfolio: Logo and Business card design

Maybe I'm late to the game, but as of today it seems Google's search is using a different design for the top bar. This morning after opening Chrome and conducting a search I noticed something was missing. It took a while before getting through what was missing, the top black bar. 

There's a new Apps icon to show all different Google Services and on the left side of that icon it shows a link to Google+ and Gmail. I think it shows the most used services I use which means it's personalized for everyone. Unfortunately I can't test this as I seem to be the only one throughout the company with this new set of changes. So it could perfectly well be the top most interesting services Google wants you to use.

Next to the apps icon the logged in user's profile photo is shown. In my case that could have used a border around it. Just to get it a bit more attitude . Another thing that I would add is the plus one box, yes that red one, that shows your notifications. The word Apps can be removed so no space extra is needed. 

In my opinion it would be even better to combine the G+ notifications and share button together. No notifications? Show a plus symbol to share. Notifications available? Show the amount of notifications and put the share on top of the notifications list. Then this would be truly a great thing!

Without the changes I would add it's still an improvement. It makes the whole look and feel cleaner and clearer! What do you think about these new changes? Anyone has this already? Or am I forever alone….

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