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 [...]

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.