Jonathan Ives has always been known to be a fantastic designer over at Apple, having won numerous awards for his creation of beautiful products. So, what else would you expect him to do for a friend’s birthday other than send him a huge iPod Nano (which is quite the contradiction in terms if you ask me). The iPod is actually pretty awesome looking, and is very similar (at least the part that the photo shows us) to the actual iPod Nano.

Apple has announced the winners of the Apple Design Awards for the year of 2009 and posted the results on their website. According to the company, “The Apple Design Awards recognize technical excellence, innovation, and outstanding achievement in iPhone and Mac software development. Each year, winning products set new standards for usability, performance, technology integration and adoption. This year’s winners raise the bar even higher.”

The iPod shuffle update surprised everyone yesterday. It was completely unexpected—probably because it was unneeded. What has Apple done in this “update”? Let’s take a look…

On Tuesday, I released a list of the 8 principal things wrong with the Safari 4 interface from a usability standpoint. Today, I’m going to outline six fixes that would make me love Safari 4, and that I feel solve all the issues.

With Safari 4, Apple apparently got over its “let’s bring Mac OS X style windows into a Windows environment” mentality, and has done a really great job making Safari 4 fit in with the environment in which it is installed. Oddly enough, it seems as though they designed the new Safari 4 interface for Windows, and then applied the exact same design to the Mac version. What you see above is the Fail Diagram, explained below. Most are more design complaints than things that may actually cause a large usability issue, but they are things that a design-oriented company such as Apple should have noted. Feel free to check things out for yourself with your own copy of Safari 4.

Acclaimed industrial designer Jonathan Ive has received a National Design Award from first lady Laura Bush. “Union of form and function has changed the way we peel potatoes and brush our teeth. Your design has made it more fun to go back in time and play oldies on our iPods,” said Mrs Bush, during the more »