Archive for the 'Gadgets' 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]