Archive for the 'Computers' Category

A World Now Without Steve Jobs

06Oct11

I entered a world in which Steve Jobs had already been born, and was 5 years old. He and I had dif­fer­ent upbring­ing, but I sus­pect that many of our cul­tural touch-points were sim­i­lar. We both first started tak­ing note of the world around us when tele­vi­sion made the leap from black and white to […]

The Greasepaint Approach

17Jun10

A Real iPhone is smaller than this, and that’s the issue I’ve recently been involved with an iPhone project where we are doing a few cus­tom UI con­trols, and it’s def­i­nitely proved a learn­ing expe­ri­ence about the dif­fer­ence between design­ing for a com­puter screen and design­ing for the iPhone screen (either the cur­rent one or the […]

iPad, You Pad, We All Pad…

03Jun10

Apple’s iPad I just got back from one of our local Apple Stores and the iPads on dis­play had quite a throng around them.  I didn’t check, but sus­pect that they are prob­a­bly  sold out for today. My visit got me think­ing about how to explain why I think the iPad is both so suc­cess­ful (and […]