Archive for the ‘mobile’ Category

I’ll be speaking at the fifth IA Konferenz in Munich this May; my first, long overdue, trip to Germany.

Why I’m not convinced by the ELSE Mobile’s claims of great user-centred design.

After you build forty or fifty websites there really isn’t any magic in it. dConstruct’s comfortable niche as the thinking person’s web conference was quickly disrupted by Adam Greenfield’s early remarks. Decrying web and UX design is a risky strategy in a room made largely of web designers and developers, yet it was a thought [...]

The concept of personality has us hooked; just look at Cosmo quizzes and the thousands of online personality tests. And rightly so: it’s something that has profound effects on our friendships, love lives (that old “she’s got a nice personality” chestnut) and careers. For instance, Bruce Tognazzini claims that designers must have an ‘N’ in [...]

There are enough of them already. I just wanted to talk about two interesting things. Interesting thing one The dictionary is superb. See I predict a pint on the marvellous GrammarBlog. As I think Peter Morville commented previously, I think one of the most intelligent and thoughtful touches Apple added was to have swear words [...]

Can’t help feeling all the mock outrage about hacked iPhones being bricked by Apple’s latest update is a little unnecessary. It’s simple: you fucked with your phone, and you knew you were invalidating the warranty. Deal with it. I get that people want to use third party apps and generally I do support devices being [...]

Delegates “screamed”. Twitter ground to a halt. The shockwaves of a simultaneous nerdgasm shook the very core of the internet. Yes, it is a lovely phone. My first thoughts are that it looks extremely promising, although like Dan Saffer at Adaptive Path I will reserve judgement until I see exactly how they’ve implemented the OS [...]