I’ve been working on an Android app design just when Google finally released Android Design guidelines (ADG). There are also metrics and grids recommendations which I find particularly useful (see http://developer.android.com/design/style/metrics-grids.html). They have a nice sample screen there, but for some reason, no PSD for download is available. I needed to create one myself anyway, [...]

I just launched a new website of my company FEEL Applications. We focus on mobile apps development, especially HTML5 based apps, but also on native apps for iOS/iPhone/iPad and Android. See the website here – FEEL Applications – mobile applications development. The website is also optimized for mobile use, via media-queries – try it!

Dribbble is an invitation only service (which is great). However, when you are unregistered user, you cannot save your favorites. So I made this Safari 5 Extension which saves your favorites in your browser when you click the heart icon+link. It makes use of html5 localStorage. This means your favorites will be available to you [...]

So you can finally grab the Helvetimail at josefrichter.com/helvetimail. This took a lot of time, because Gmail html, css and js are extremely messy. Does anyone know why? If you like Helvetimail, please see also my Helvetwitter. Please use discussion under this blogpost to submit comments, report problems, etc. I am aware that Helvetimail is [...]

Probably everyone, including me, likes Helvetireader and the new kid on the block, Helvetical. My despair with Twitter website as well as standalone clients, made me create a minimalist twitter client, using custom CSS and Fluid. Please click the icon to go to special Helvetwitter subpage. This blogpost is mainly a support for Helvetwitter. If [...]

UPDATE: Helvetwitter is out! check www.josefrichter.com/helvetwitter If you are using Helvetireader, maybe incorporated into Fluid or Mozilla Prism, you might have been looking for a nice 512px icon. As I didn’t find any nice one, I decided to make one myself. So here is the result. Feel free to donwnload and share it (please include [...]

UPDATE: now with new Opera icon You may have heard about the IE 6 no more initiative. It asks webmasters to put a banner on their page, which detects Internet Explorer 6 and suggests to download ‘a modern browser’ instead. While I generally support the initiative, the banners are unusable for me. One of the [...]

Read this letter and try to spot an amazing typo. Click on the letter to enlarge it. If you didn’t find it, click here: where is the typo?

Making layouts in CSS is a real pain. To me it’s like cleaning toilet with a toothbrush – it can be done, you can even achieve great results, but you would probably choose different tool if you could… The community, including Eric Meyer and Shaun Inman obviously longs for a real layout system. Before we [...]

This piece of code makes form fields more intelligent and usable. It clears the field on focus and if nothing is filled-in, it puts back the default value. There is a single line function MooTools for this, but I used jQuery elsewhere on the web, so I needed jQuery solution. But couldn’t find any good [...]