Sources close to Apple told 9to5Mac that the next iteration of Apple’s iOS software will be getting a complete redesign. That redesign will predominantly sport black and white colors while toning down on the textured look that iOS has been known for since its inception in 2007.

Apple Senior Vice President of Industrial Design Jonathan Ive (aka the guy who designed the iPhone hardware) is now in charge of the iOS7 overhaul. He is expected to bring the simplistic design of his hardware to iOS 7. He reportedly feels that Apple’s iOS has become complicated in recent years with different visual designs for different apps. His design would unite all of Apple’s software under a common aesthetic principle while retaining the simplicity of use iOS fans have come to expect.

Ive’s new black and white approach to UI design will find its way into pretty much every facet of the next iteration of iOS. Some examples include a lock screen that’s no longer transparent, notifications that ditch the current leather look in favor of a white text on black background, and the home screen will be removing gradient textures from backgrounds and app icons.

Speaking of apps, all of Apple’s apps have reportedly been redesigned with the new black and white look in mind. One example is the Notes app, which currently features a yellow notepad look. The new design will likely feature a simplistic white look with black text.

Outside of design, the new mobile OS will also reportedly include integration with Flickr and Vimeo.

We’re likely to see if the above rumors are true at Apple’s WWDC keynote on June 10. The developer-focused event will likely not feature a lot of new hardware (sorry iPhone fans), but we’ll probably get our first look at iOS 7 and the next version of Mac OS X.

HTC recently released a video featuring the hardware designers of the HTC One talking about the creative process of making an all-metal body for a smartphone. As you might expect, CNC and diamond cutters were involved to create the smooth edges found on the device. The most interesting part, however, was how the designers cut space on the inside to lay circuitry so that there would be no moving parts.

It’s stuff like this that makes the HTC One one of the best phones of 2013. Samsung is likely to remain on top this year thanks to the Galaxy S4, but the HTC One might just help boost the marketshare of the beleaguered Taiwanese manufacturer.

[h/t: Gizmodo]

The can, will be a few drop short of the full 12-ounce can you’re used to – clocking in at 11.3 ounces. With the fewer ounces of beer comes fewer calories per can – 8.5 fewer to be exact.

“This can is certainly a conversation starter: eye-catching, easy-to-grip, trendy and – according to our research – very appealing to young adults,” Budweiser innovation head Pat McGauley said. “It’s a beer can like no other.”

“This can is incomparable, like nothing you’ve ever seen before,” said Pat McGauley, vice president of innovation for Anheuser-Busch. “The world’s most iconic beer brand deserves the world’s most unique and innovative can. I think we have it here.”

The cans will come in 8-packs.

Of course, the bowtie can resembles the long-time Budweiser logo, and that was the goal.

“Though there is no written documentation on the origins of the Budweiser bowtie, it is a brand icon found the world over. According to company lore, the bowtie was introduced when too many people were using the “Bud” bar call too frequently, so the double triangles were added to emphasize the full Budweiser name,” says Budweiser.

Felton, who began working on the new Facebook Timeline project in April of 2011, says that he’s proud of the projects he worked on and confident in the future products.

Fittingly, you can find his entire message posted on his Timeline:

On April 19, 2011 I walked into the Palo Alto Facebook office and began contributing to the timeline project. Two years, many late nights and a few launch celebrations later I will be moving on.

The opportunity to help mold a service of such importance to so many people has been a high point in my professional career. I’m extremely proud of the projects I worked on, grateful to the teams that built them and confident in the products to come. – feeling nostalgic at Facebook HQ.

Felton originally studied graphic design at the Rhode Island School of Design and credits himself as the founder of Daytum.com. He says in a comment on that post that he will be returning to New York city, but no further info on his plans.

After announcing Timeline at their f8 conference in the Fall of 2011, Facebook began rolling it out, very slowly, in December of the same year. Like many new Facebook products, Timeline was initially met with a lot of negative feedback – both from people concerned about privacy and some who simply didn’t like the design. Over the past year or so, Facebook has made small tweaks to Timeline and users have begun to accept it. Last month, Facebook announced a major refresh of Timeline, bringing a one-column look that puts more focus on interests. That update is still slowly rolling out to all users.

[h/t Mashable]

The video discusses how to better understand your users, increase engagement, and measure the success of changes you make.

When the News Feed goes live, users will see the News Feed appear in the top right corner of the screen. All of the feeds will be organized based upon how much a user utilizes them with the most used feeds appearing near the top.

So, what kind of feeds can we expect to see? The first is the “All Friends Feed” that lists every post from every friend in chronological order. As rumored, Facebook will provide a redesigned “Music Feed” and “Photo Feed” as well. The “Music Feed” will show what musicians are posting alongside what friends are listening to. It also shows any albums that were recently released alongside any nearby concerts from bands that you’re following. The “Photo Feed” is more self-explanatory in that it features every photo posted by friends and family in chronological order.

Outside of those feeds, the other feeds get a bit more interesting. The first of these more unique feeds is the “Following Feed” that lists all the posts from the brands, pages and public figures you follow in chronological order. Facebook was sure to emphasize that those on this feed will see every post made by pages they follow. It seems to suggest that promoted posts won’t have an effect here, and brands concerned over users not seeing their content will have a safe haven here.

The other feeds include the “Best Friends Feed” and “Games Feed” which are pretty self-explanatory. The former collects all the posts from those designated as best friends, and the games feed will display every game that your friends are playing.

Last but not least, the “Most Recent” feed isn’t going anywhere. This will collect all of the posts from friends and pages in chronological order.

Some desktop users will begin seeing the new News Feed on Facebook starting today as Facebook is rolling out in a limited fashion. Mobile users will see it show up in the coming weeks.

Can you explain a little bit about the proposed “autocompletetype” attribute? Is this something I should add on my web forms?

“The basic idea is lots of websites have forms,” says Cutts. “You type in your name – your first name, your last name, your address, your street address, your postal code – all this sort of stuff. And it’s a real pain to fill out those forms. If you’re a business owner or a publisher, the easier you can make it to fill out those forms, the more likely it is that people will do purchases or sign up for your newsletter, or whatever it is that you’re interested in. So it’s highly recommended that you make it easy for people to fill out those forms.”

“You take your existing web form, and Google Chrome (hopefully other browsers will pick this up as well) has proposed a standard called ‘autocompletetype,’ so you can say, ‘autocomplete type is street address’,” he adds. “It doesn’t change your form elements. Your variables are still the same, so you’re only adding. It’s not as if any of your forms are going to break. But by annotating your forms with the correct type of thing that you expect people to fill in with the browser’s autocomplete, Chrome will know exactly how to fill out your forms.”

He says it’s a “tiny” amount of work, and as a result, users will “whisk” right through your form. There’s no down side, he says.

Also, for some reason, there’s a clip from a Who song at the end of the video.

This week’s video tackles not only notification design, but the design process behind Google Now:

Join Nick Butcher, Adam Koch and Roman Nurik as they discuss various elements of Android Design. This week, Alex Faaborg from the Android UX team at Google stops by to talk about the when and the why of notifications and walks through a design process case study for Google Now.

The folks at Online Degrees recently created an infographic that shows how 3D printing will have a profound impact on the future of education. Of course, the most obvious benefit will be for design students using 3D printers to bring their creations to life. That being said, pretty much every discipline will be able to benefit from 3D printing in the future.

Of course, 3D printers and expensive, and schools are having to slash budgets. That’s where the innovative entrepreneurs comes in. A recent Kickstarter was offering two 3D printers for only $700. The goal was to get as many of these things into schools as possible. Unfortunately, the project wasn’t able to meet it’s funding goal. An equally exciting cheap 3D printing project, the 3Doodler, has recently smashed its funding goal, however, and could prove extremely useful in certain disciplines.

Jeremy Zawodny tweeted about the changes over a week ago, but they’ve gone relatively undiscussed until TechCrunch picked up on the story on Sunday after a lead from Matt Inouye.

Here’s a look:

This “Grid View” recently started showing up as an option on search results pages.

Special? Not particularly. It’s just interesting that such a move is randomly coming from Craigslist in 2013. At least it still looks relatively old fashioned.