Flyosity: Mac & iPhone Interface Design Blog by Mike Rundle

About This Site

Flyosity is a blog dedicated to highlighting, reviewing, and producing high-quality interface & icon design.

Why did I decided to write on that subject? Well as I started working on my first Mac application I tried to absorb all the information I could about what a "Mac-like" design is and tips to follow, and I didn't find a lot. Sure, the Apple Human Interface Guidelines are a good starting point but I soon realized that sometimes even Apple doesn't follow its own HIG, so what makes something "Mac-like" and what doesn't?

That's about the time I started scrutinizing every Mac application sitting on my hard drive. Every window, every widget, every button, every icon, down to the precise pixel. I started seeing interface conventions followed in the Mac community that weren't necessarily born from Apple's software so I thought it'd be fun to document these beautiful interfaces from every angle, including how to produce them yourselves.

In the past I've written extensively on web design, and in that arena I have far more expertise since I've been designing for the web for many years. In the Mac & iPhone software design community, I don't have much of a foothold, so I thought it'd be fun to learn brand new things and document my thoughts and findings as I go.

About Me

I'm Mike Rundle, a designer and developer living in Raleigh, NC with my wife Eleni and our dog Dora. I was born in 1983, designed my first website in 1996, and got paid for my first website in 2002. Since then I've worked on a number of great projects, started 9rules, and am currently a UI Engineer at Bronto Software.

Technology stuff I'm interested in:

• Mac & iPhone interface design
• Icon design
• jQuery
• Cocoa Programming

Awards and recognition I've received:

• Best Web Designer of the Year from artypapers.com
• 9rules: Best Community of the Year from SXSW Interactive
• Business Logs: Best Blog Design of the Year finalist from SXSW Interactive
• 9rules: #1 Voted Rebooted Site from CSS Reboot
• Plastic Pilots 2-Star Award Winner
• Featured at Stylegala, CSS Vault, CSS Beauty, Webcreme, and many others

Books my work or CSS techniques have been featured in:

• "The Zen of CSS Design" by Dave Shea
• "Web Standards Solutions" by Dan Cederholm
• "CSS Mastery" by Andy Budd

Thanks for visiting!