A Couple Observations from @jenniferbrook #ixdanyc talk about #iPad #nytimes App
It’s never easy giving a presentation, even more so when the person is talking about high profile and visible work. I’ve only done a couple talks and from experience can say they’re never easy. Last night Jennifer Brook talked about one of the few iPad apps that everyone with an iPad has probably used a couple times. She described her approach to designing the NYT iPad app to a full (if not sold out) audience at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia for IxDA NYC.... Read More
Questions and Answers Directory via Twitter Conversations—Where is This Site?
When a question arises, what’s one of the first things a person that spends a bit of time online will say? “I’ll just ask Twitter” is one of those thought bubbles that pops up. Why search the web when you can ask a real person? The person likely to respond is someone that they know (somewhat) and probably share the same interests. I’ve typed in a question many times getting a pretty good response within a couple minutes. As bad as Twitter is for trying to... Read More
#NYCUPA Event, a Couple of my Notes from Usable iPad Apps: HUGE Insights and a Case Study
Last night’s NYC UPA’s event wasn’t bad, but it also wasn’t what wasn’t exactly as advertised either. On the NYC UPA website this was the outline: “HUGE Design Director Felipe Memoria will open the presentation by identifying key attributes of the most usable iPad apps launched to date. Creative Director Joe Stewart will then walk the audience through the design decisions behind the recently-launched Reuters app and invite the audience to evaluate... Read More
INTERVIEW: Sougwen
I first met Sougwen at Joey Roth’s Sounds Like talk. She had been invited by Joey to draw on a set of speakers and was on the panel to talk about it. I really liked what she had drawn on the speaker so over the weekend I took a closer look at her drawings. Later that week I interviewed her hoping that our conversation would shed some light on why I liked her work. Below is a condensed and edited version of our conversation that we had in a small dinner over coffee and... Read More
Examining my 5 Device Command Center to Watch the World Cup
I’m not sure what happened. I started watching the World Cup saturday morning and before I knew it, I had two laptops, an iPad and iPhone all running something related to the game. I never really designed it that way. It just happened. I think for something like a five+ screen command center to work, most of the screens need to have a primary focus and a secondary app. For all the mac stuff (4 out of 5 devices), I could basically do the same thing switching stuff up. The... Read More
New and Old Behavior with Power Outlet Plugs and Sockets
I’ve been noticing a trend around my own apartment in terms of plugs and sockets. Because I’m so reliant on battery power for both my iPhone and iPad (along with my MacBook Pro) I’ve realized that my plug and socket dynamics have shifted a bit. The second photo shows all the power cables that are connected to some older computer equipment. The top image represents a clean scenario that I have in four different outlets. The old behavior has tons of cables. Now... Read More
Bending Content Buckets, or How I Currently Grab Content Worth Trying to Remember
a> I’ve been thinking about doing an updated post about how I find stuff on the online for a while. The internet was a lot simpler before I found myself getting throttled by my internet carrier who claims to be giving me fast internet. Back in the day I could open 70–90 sites easily via tabs. Now I’m lucky if 8–10 sites will open up at once. Typically three or four sites will open inside of tabs and the rest of the sites will fail to load. I found myself trying... Read More
Link Drop from May 22nd to June 4th 2010
Last week I ran out of time so this week I’ve included most of the non time sensitive links that I would have published last week. Time is flying by it seems, is it for you? I still remember when it was April and now it’s almost the middle of June. I’ve been following a lot of data vis. stuff along with a bit of tech which is sort of predictable at this point for me. What is slightly different is that I’ve amped up the visuals that I find interesting. VOYEUR Really... Read More
A Different Kind of Early Adopter Tax
A lot has been said about early adopters and specifically iPad early adopters. People that buy Apple things have come to expect that their first editions will go down in price and functionality months after they buy the first release. With the iPad it was also understood that some web sites wouldn’t work properly because Apple doesn’t allow flash. I didn’t care that much to be honest about the flash issue but when I can’t seem embedded videos from Vimeo... Read More
