Comparing the Best iPad Photo Apps—Edited vs Public Stream
THOMAS REUTERS GALLERIES FLICKR PHOTO MAP Last week I came across the new iPad app Flickr Photo Map (Flickr btw didn’t release it) that displays photos that are geo tagged inside of Flickr. I really like how it has changed how I explore Flickr on my iPad and thought it would be a good exercise to compare it with my other favouriet iPad photo app—Thomson Reuters Galleries.... Read More
Exploring Gesture Deficiency
Yesterday while working on a multi touch iPad UI issue with Chris Fahey, the phrase “gesture deficient” came up. We were looking at some of the iPhone swipe actions to multi delete and wondered how many people like or even know about some of the things a person can do to swipe. Essentially there’s features built around those that are “gesture deficient”, for those... Read More
Turning a Print Magazine into a Friendly iPad Version, Looking at Dazed & Confused
Now that the iPad has been out for a couple months I’m starting to see different types of clusters of functions happening for publishing. There’s the standard web version through a browser, stand alone mags like Wired that have to be designed twice to fit portrait and landscape formats, pdfs, feeds like Flipboard and now a light weight flipbook like device... Read More
Some Ambient Themes about the #Flipboard iPad App
For those that have had the chance to read content displayed on Flipboard for the iPad, there is almost universal approval of the experience. Yeah there are people that weren’t able to download the app for the first couple of days, and they should have had better error messaging explaining why some Twitter lists and people weren’t able to be followed. But with that... Read More
Close is the New Back Button on Apps
.bbpBox{background:url(http://a3.twimg.com/profile_background_images/3279827/Untitled-1.jpg) #e4e5e7;padding:20px;} apps are becoming their own browser. a good idea is to link out with a back button inside the frameWed Jul 21 03:39:01 via EchofonMichael SurteesMichaelSurtees Last night as I was going through Reeder and Pulse News apps at the same time on my iPad, I made a... Read More
No Kidding that Kindle ebooks Outselling Hardcover on Amazon
I don’t think it should really come as a surprise that Kindle ebooks outselling hardcover on Amazon. The process of buying a book is simple and fast. Since buying my iPad I’ve bought four books so far. The last book I bought was a couple days ago—let me explain how fast it was to do. I was reading the blog post from A VC about the book Grumby. The book sounded interesting... Read More
Comparing Real Time Weather Data from my Window and iPad
Looking outside a couple minutes ago from my window I noticed some ominous clouds approaching. Wanting a better idea of what might be coming I opened the WeatherBug app on my iPad. Sure enough there’s some nasty weather coming in my direction. Weather based apps have been around for a while but I wanted to note how quickly and easy it was to transfer what I saw with my eyes... Read More
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... 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... 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... Read More
