It’s Got One Window.

What it’s like to work for Steve Jobs:

“We had about three weeks to prepare,” Evangelist says. He and another employee went to work creating beautiful mock-ups depicting the perfect interface for the new program. On the appointed day, Evangelist and the rest of the team gathered in the boardroom. They’d brought page after page of prototype screen shots showing the new program’s various windows and menu options, along with paragraphs of documentation describing how the app would work.

“Then Steve comes in,” Evangelist recalls. “He doesn’t look at any of our work. He picks up a marker and goes over to the whiteboard. He draws a rectangle. ‘Here’s the new application,’ he says. ‘It’s got one window. You drag your video into the window. Then you click the button that says burn. That’s it. That’s what we’re going to make.’ “

The whole article is worth a read http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/147/apple-nation.html

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  • @markofrespect Got it. While we don't have that (yet) you could export the HTML, apply your own CSS, then share that with the client.
  • @markofrespect (Great to hear) In what way do you want to customize it more? Layout?