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Windows 2.0 gets a fresh look

SourceTree 2.0 brings massive wins not only for performance, but for design. In this release, we’ve continued to address the number one customer feedback theme: UI complexity. To this end, we’ve brought some much needed consistency and simplicity to the interface. A proper home for tabs The Windows App always used tabs for navigating between […]

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Yosemite – Thoughts on blurriness and design ecosystems

I reviewed OSX 10.10 over the weekend, and observed a new trend emerging on the design battlefield. It’s blurry, translucent, and vibrant. It’s also incredibly expensive and difficult to render. In OSX 10.10, dragging a translucent window makes the panel flicker, go completely black, and breaks blur effects. Resizing a window is incredibly slow and choppy. Developers have their work cut out for them to achieve decent performance by the end of the beta. Eventually, they’ll get it right, and Apple will be hailed as revolutionary once again.

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The tell-all tale of Bitbucket’s redesign

Redesigning an entire application is a formidable undertaking with many risks and possibilities for failure. Brian Nguyen, one of our developers, already covered the challenges of Bitbucket’s redesign from a technical standpoint. Now, I’d like to share some of the challenges from the design angle, along with how we eventually overcame them.