Designing Beauty into Our Life
People often ask … “where do you get your design inspirations from?”
My answer is … “Living in poverty”
Right now we might not be able to afford the beautiful things around us but nothing is stopping us from building things of beauty …
Color
Last weekend we went to a cars & coffee sponsored by Ferrari Silicon Valley looking for colors for our new app …
Racing Red (Ferrari red) has it’s own wiki page.
This car is BLUE not White! As you walk around the car the color changes depending how the light hits the car.
Mobile App Color Scheme
Our current color scheme is derived from a Starbucks cup
Using the Mac Digital Color Meter we find the colors that we want to use.
Applying these to the Material Design Color Tool.
Generating our color palette.
Color Palette from nature
Is this a shoe or a flower?
Nature is the best designer …
Steve Jobs famously said a good artist copies, but a great artist steals… although he probably stole that quote from Picasso… who probably took it from Stravinsky.
Using everything around us to find inspiration.
