Tell us all about Cosmic Mission and what it’s all about. Cosmic Mission is my company, is my little shop front to the wide web It’s currently being overhauled as I will be offering different types of services just after the summer, a designer is never happy with his / her site and I spend a lot of time scrapping ideas and tweaking pixels. What software do you use? I try to keep my toolset [...]

It’s always good to add a little colour to your devices. The Fox is Black, an art and design blog run by Bobby Solomon and friends, is host to The Desktop Wallpaper Project. Each week, they upload a wallpaper created by a different illustrator, photographer or designer. Luckily, each of these wallpapers is available in a variety of formats, including iPhone and iPad. Recent wallpapers have been designed by the likes of Brighton-based illustrator Matt [...]

Prototypes, created by Duncan Wilcox and Keith Lang, is a Mac app created for designers that allows you to import your iPhone app mockups and create dummy interactivity. The program produces a basic app that works on your iPhone or iPod Touch, which is uploaded to the ptyp.es website. You’re given a pin and can send the link to your client to view. It’s a great tool for testing the flow of your app, as [...]

There are loads of websites offering free resources for designers, from wireframing tools and icons to GUI elements and mobile design porn sites. The Teehan+Lax is a bit of a treasure trove with great downloads such as their iPad and iPhone GUI documents (shown below), a set of iPad sketch elements for wireframing and a guide to designing “pixel perfect” app graphics in Photoshop. They offer them on a “pay what you think they’re worth” basis. [...]

Mashable have covered 7 current trends in mobile app development. These cover mainly design and interface elements such as the Retro View Finder on Hipstamatic. But like most trends I’m hoping it doesn’t ‘inspire’ people to just follow these. Create your own trends don’t just follow others!