Archive for the 'Design' Category

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 […]

Eek!

08Nov09

For decades there was a reli­gious war regard­ing what com­puter users should be doing with their hands when they weren’t typ­ing. No, not that reli­gious war (you cheeky mon­key!), the one about the point­ing device, which would allow a user to make ges­tures on the screen, and address parts of a graphic user inter­face. Before […]

The Fune: “It’s Really Hot!”

20Aug09

I know some of these are cheap shots, but I had more than a few chuck­les with this par­ody. I par­tic­u­larly liked the mon­strously bad user inter­face and indus­trial design, and how it mim­ics old ‘rotary’ phones.