The Apps of a Design Manager

1. Paper App

A really great notepad app from 53, the first pen tool is free, and if you want more you can buy the rest as bundle or separately (I bought the bundle). Makes it very easy to sketch ideas and explore UX concepts.

2. AppaFolio

Register to the site and upload your pictures, Appafolio will build an interactive Portfolio for you. Nice and free.

3. SketchBook Pro for Ipad

This app from Autodesk is not a toy, even if it is really cheap. It comes very handy with a pen and the touch screen bring a complete new dimension compared to sketching on Wacom+PC.

Paris v.s New York, cultural parallels

For the past two years, graphic designer Vahram Muratyan, a self-described “lover of Paris wandering through New York,” has been chronicling the peculiarities and contradictions of the two cities through “a friendly visual match” of minimalist illustrated parallel portraits. Wonderful.

 

The magazine of the future

Flipboard is an amazing app, not only because it make RSS sexy, but because it invent a new form of press: the social media magazine.

Flipboard Pages are built on a lightweight JavaScript engine that lays out articles in a paginated format optimized for iPad. Through semantic analysis, the taxonomy of an article is broken down into essential components including headline, images, byline, captions, and pullquotes. The content is then reflowed into an HTML5 template for short- and long-form articles and image galleries, in both portrait and landscape orientations.

Read this blog  with Flipboard (just search for DesignBrother, and select the Facebook feed) and you will see how it really make the experience richer.