The webpages for the MacBook Air and the iPad Mini blend whitespace, images and text masterfully. The result is simple, elegant and aesthetically pleasing (nice fonts make a huge difference). They also don’t make extensive use of columns. The top...

Tapiture is simple and elegant in design. Everything is very nicely put together and the menu is simple and effective (and only pops up when you need it). If a site needs to present a ton of images, their variable...

The latter half of the article (linked below), by Dan Bricklin (co-creator of VisiCalc), touches upon the big idea of the ‘Metaphor’ paradigm in user interface design. I think this part (near the very end) is key: “This is not...