Archive for the 'User Interface' 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 […]

My Presentation on UX for WordPress Sites

27Nov10

I recently gave a talk on apply­ing some User Expe­ri­ence con­sid­er­a­tions to the design deci­sions one makes in a Word­Press blog. Since there are a num­ber of plu­g­ins and other tech­nolo­gies that can enhance the user expe­ri­ence of a blog, I thought it would be good to pro­mote some of these. Here’s the pre­sen­ta­tion deck […]

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 […]