Archive for the 'Mobile' 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 […]

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.

Information Design Gone Wild

30Mar09

Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Noth­ing of him that doth fade, But doth suf­fer a sea-change Into some­thing rich and strange. — from Ariel’s Song, The Tem­pest by William Shake­speare I loved the almost anal-retentive dis­play of data through a heads-up […]