Schooling the Industry
The web is abuzz with Apple’s recent announcement of their new education products: a new version of iBooks, iTunes U, and the addition of textbooks to the iBookstore. Overall, I find all of these announcements very exciting. I believe that they show where the industry is headed, and education is going digital. As with any …
Game Time
One thing I enjoy doing in my off time is playing computer games (surprised?). Aside from the normal enjoyment derived from the gameplay itself, I also enjoy looking at how different game manufacturers approach the user interface. A genre of game I find myself drawn to is called role-playing. Some of the hallmarks of the …
To Click or Be Clicked
As an early Christmas present to myself, I recently purchased a brand new, top of the line, MacBook Pro. One of the first things I did after starting it up was to enable all of the multitouch gestures. I have now had some time to acclimate myself to this new style of interaction, and I …
Susan Kare
“You just have to make the best painting you can, and if you’re lucky, people will get the message.”
Publish or Perish
One of the major tenets of today’s internet is speed of publication. Top blog and news sites post updates several times a day, and even though the depth of each article varies, the goal always seem to be more and faster. As tablets and smartphones become more and more engrained in our lives, we can …
Wrap It Up
The relaunch of Senior Correspondent got me thinking a lot about lists, especially in terms of structure and interactivity. The above illustration represents a standard way to mark up an article teaser. The outside element is some sort of container, then we code the title as a headline with a link inside, show a small …
Sizing Things Up
When I first got into designing web sites, I must admit, I didn’t know enough about what I was doing. I had learned enough in school to volunteer my services to clients, but I quickly found out that there was much more I needed to know. My reality-check came when a client gave me feedback …
Hidden Interface
Every once and a while somebody discovers some little trick in a program and eventually it makes the rounds on all the tech blog sites. Recently it was found that if you press and hold the new tab button on an iPad, you can access a list of recently closed tabs. What interested me about …
Collaborative Creativity
On creativity, Steve Jobs said: “Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new …