Creative Wednesday: Evolution of Website Designs and OS GUIs
The Blessing of Hindsight
#1
The Ghost of Apple Websites Past
David Appleyard at Appstorm dives into the internet archives to bring us the evolution of the mighty Apple website from 1997 - present. After the first design which was markedly "corporate", Apple shifted to a simpler design and maintained consistency for more than 10 years.
#2
How the DevDays Website was Born
Mike Kus graciously shares with us the process that he went through to create the DevDays site. It is quire an interesting thing to peek inside the mind of another design as he's working, and this is a rare opportunity to do just that.
#3
How the Latest VisitMix.com site design was born
Another wonderful opporunity to look at the design process of another designer as Nishant Kothary shares his design process for visitmix.com.
#4
Tweking the Highrise Contacts Screen
The newest designer at 37Signals shares the process that he went through to improve the design and usability of the contacts page of their hot application Highrise.
#5
The Evolution of OS GUIs over 30 Years
From website design to OS GUIs, this post at WebdesignerDepot showcases a variety of OS GUIs from 1998 to 2009. The post itself is not quite comprehensive, but most of the pages it links to contain very details screenshots.