Monthly Archives: March 2010

The Ultimate Companion for Rapid Prototyping?

By admin | Published: March 29, 2010
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I could do without the goofy bevel and fake wood. But I love the idea of turning the iPad into a rapid prototyping companion. Now if we could only get a stylus, front facing camera and standard USB connector…

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Application Design 101 With Brandon Walkin

By admin | Published: March 23, 2010
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He hits all of the major points that plague bad application design. Great read for anyone aspiring to design applications – or even reasonably complex interfaces.

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Cookie Cutter Apps = Bad

By admin | Published: March 8, 2010
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Last week Mulvey and I were talking about the mental fork created by Apple’s app strategy. Specifically, I mentioned I sometimes get confused when I want to “switch” my context from one thing on my iPhone to another – I’ll hit the home button and search for an app if I’m looking for a web [...]

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Go Tufte!

By admin | Published: March 8, 2010
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(from combustion) Edward Tufte Presidential Appointment Edward Tufte, March 7, 2010: I will be serving on the Recovery Independent Advisory Panel. This Panel advises The Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, whose job is to track and explain $787 billion in recovery stimulus funds: “The Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board was created by the American Recovery [...]

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WABC is Dead

By admin | Published: March 7, 2010
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As the TV wars heat up – to see more check out Method’s recent 10×10 article – more dumb stuff like this is going to happen. This is what I see when I turn on channel 7 (ABC in my market).

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Facebook, Twitter, Flickr (+ more) Aggregator

By admin | Published: March 7, 2010
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Walk by anyone’s desk at my office and you’ll see TweetDeck running or minimized in the background. It started as a great piece of software for the hardcore Twitterer and has matured into a pretty good social feed aggregator. I never really loved the UI though. It’s treatment of the chicklet buttons across the top [...]

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More On Courier

By admin | Published: March 5, 2010
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From Engadget: the interface appears to be pen-based and centered around drawing and writing, with built-in handwriting recognition and a corresponding web site that allows access to everything entered into the device in a blog-like format complete with comments This is a fantastic idea. I’d imagine the same thing is possible with an iPhone or [...]

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Big Bang

By admin | Published: March 4, 2010
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Big Bang is a new trend map from iA – the same folks that brought us the Web Trend Map poster series. This sucker takes a look at a level abstracted from actual domains – social networks. I particularly enjoyed this quote: Since twitter is becoming an alternative web protocol that—together with facebook—gets close and [...]

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David vs. Goliath (Method 10×10)

By admin | Published: March 4, 2010
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Method is gradually rolling out beautifully designed white papers illustrating insights they’ve gained over their first 10 years of operation. I just read David vs. Goliath which is about OTT services (like Hulu, Boxee, etc.) vs. Big Cable. Aside: if you’ve noticed food network briefly being unavailable or the threat that ABC 7 will leave [...]

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