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Design: In everyday life, “Design” refers to the pleasant shape of things. It is a superficial term, cosmetic rather than structural in its meaning. When designers talk about “Design” they refer to how a product or service works, rather than how it looks. Designers, a highly heterogeneous audience, have a more structural, sometimes even moral understanding of how products are built. The difference in use can lead to a lot of misunderstandings. When talking to a client, be sure to specify what kind of design you’re referring to, which helps avoid debates around Taste.

Design or Kitsch?

iA Notebook wins its second award this year

Good design is long-lasting

Jony Ive’s Philosophy of Design

Giambattista Vico's Design of Philosophy

Looking back before we look forward to the next year

For your phone, tablet or desktop computer

Not sure what to get your friends for Christmas?

Create, structure, design, prepare—the rest is easy

Five books that helped us improving our writing, presenting, and design skills.

A selection of books about writing, presenting and design

AI and the Future of Design

iA Sharing is now available in iA Presenter for Mac (beta)

Preorders are open

Things can be replaced—lost time, however, is forever lost

On Artificial Intelligence and Information Architecture

Like all good things

Used everywhere, they just decorate boredom
We redesigned everything.

Do you wonder sometimes about sound and letters?

There is a connection between good and beautiful.

iA Writer now offers three custom designed writing fonts

The most precious things cannot be measured, counted or weighed

And Hillary Clinton uses iA Writer

In search of the perfect writing typeface

A sneak peek

iA Writer 5: From raw to complex to simple

What designers can learn from games
We ♥ icons, madly

An adventure

On quality

What makes designers think they are so special?

A love letter

Why did it take so long?

Interview with Business Insider

Interview with The Verge

How to deal with a variety of screen sizes and resolutions
We need not only responsive layouts, we also need responsive typefaces.
Interview with DRT.fm

The history, shape and sound pattern of each letter

Freemium for News?

A lecture

“Card Sharks” vs “Holy Scrollers”

A marketing stunt, or mere tomfoolery?

"iA on IA" from EuroIA 2010.
“Writer has out-innovated Apple.” —Fast Company

Rhetoric and reality

Interview with Jonny Holland

WIRED on iPad

Art for Geeks

Per Anhalter durch die Twitter Galaxis

No iPad yet? Print it!
The contract was never signed, so we kept our designs in the drawer... Until now…

Meet the Cosmic 140

An outlook for L’Espresso

An interview with GaijinPot.com

On mind control

We decided to try something new

What makes Japanese design so special?

A little bit of everything, please

You gotta keep em separated

The coolest gift for geeks

You can't discuss and moderate at the same time

A preview
Google vs. Apple

Das ultimative Tool für Internetfreaks, die Web Trend Map 2008, ist nun als A0-Poster erhältlich.

The coolest gift for geeks

We present you with the 2008 Web Trend Map, in all its beautiful beta glory. This time we’ve taken almost 300 of the most influential and successful websites and pinned them down to the greater Tokyo-area train map.

New layers!

What’s New?

Branding Crimes

Creation = Copy + Improve²

Branding Crimes
Face Off

Version 2.0

Quality costs time and money

...as a Wiki
"This is our salvation." Is it?

Mission Accomplished

Reactions

All the big players

Never underestimate the artist

Don't be lazy

The old Greeks brought me here

Reactions

Signals work best if they're bold

Brand = UI

Deeper beauty

Style is easy, ease is hard

The F-Pattern

Webdesign is Product Design

Why are Computers not Flying?

Just Noise?

Do pretty websites work better than ugly ones?