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Currency is a well designed currency converter for iPhone

Recently, I travelled overseas. Figuring out how much something was worth in Great British Pounds versus US Dollars was quite challenging with the exchange rate fluctuating daily. Instead of calculating everything in my head, I just used Currency, a great app by Simple Simple. It lets you convert any amount of money up to nine figures, to over 160 different currencies...
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SkyFonts lets you rent fonts for use on your Mac

There are many font services out there that let you use beautiful typography on your website(s) for free. Google Web Fonts, Typekit, and MyFonts are some of the most popular choices. But what if you could try out a font the way you can on a website, but while you're designing in Photoshop or Illustrator? That's what SkyFonts, a new service from Monotype Imaging is try...
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An Interview with Haraldur Thorleifsson

Today I'm talking to an accomplished designer from Iceland who's done some great work for companies like Google and Square. Without further ado, let's introduce Haraldur Thorleifsson! How did you get into design? Most designers seem to have been drawing from an early age and obsessing over font ligatures since they were in diapers. I on the other hand can't remember...
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Seesaw Launches: Opinions From Friends When You Need Them Most

Seesaw, a new app from the founders of CoTweet (our good friends Aaron Gotwalt and Sam Soffes are part of the team there), is attempting to make complicated decision-making so much easier, wherever you are, and whatever you're asking. At some point during the day, we all have to make a decision of some sort. It might be something as simple as what we're g...
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PNG Express Lets You Slice and Export from Photoshop With Ease

After designing a website or app in Photoshop, you'll usually need to slice and export the design so it can be developed into a working product. There are a few apps and Photoshop extensions that we've taken a look at in the past such as Slicy (née Layer Cake), DevRocket, and WebZap. All are very useful for these kind of tasks, and today I'd like to introduce anothe...
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An Interview with Sarah Parmenter

Sarah Parmenter is a designer, front-end developer, speaker, and writer based in Essex, UK (although she can be found at many conferences all around the world). She does some amazing iOS design work, and also co-hosts a podcast with our friend Josh Long, which I've come to love. Happy Monday is a weekly show where the two talk with creative people from our industry...
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SnapRuler is a great addition to your design workflow

There are many tools (apart from the major ones like Photoshop and Illustrator) that are essential to my design and development workflow. Some of them, including Skala and Colors, serve simple but important functions. Others, such as LittleIpsum, Characters, and CloudApp can be used for development and performing basic tasks on a daily basis. Now there is SnapRule...
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Skimn – A nice RSS reader for the iPad

If you take a look at the free news apps on the App Store, you'll see quite a diverse mix of RSS readers, read-later apps (such as Instapaper and Readability), and magazine/social feeds (such as Flipboard and Pulse). There haven't been many newcomers of note to this category in the past few months, but I'm happy to say that Skimn, a new app from Luke Beard and Nichola...
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Find great design-related links with Designer News by LayerVault

Finding good design-related links on a daily or hourly basis aside from Twitter is difficult. Most of the design blogs I frequent daily only add one to five articles a day, which usually means resorting to Dribbble for inspiration, and Twitter for interaction. After I recently subscribed to Sidebar.io (a great daily newsletter by Sacha Grief), the void was partiall...
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Dotgrid.co’s high-quality books are essential to every designer’s workflow

Very rarely do we review physical products created by or for designers. Most of the time we're writing about apps and web services, not bags, cases, and accessories for our collective myriad of devices (although there are a few exceptions). Dotgrid.co is one of those exceptions, not only because it makes great products, but also because the two creative people behind ...
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