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Jason Santa Maria Go to the source

Paper is a new drawing app for the iPad from FiftyThree. Immediately after watching the video, I downloaded it (free download with paid add-ons) and ordered Cosmonaut and Jot styluses to try out. As a habitual sketcher , I’ve tried lots of drawing apps before, but this is the most promising one yet. The simplicity and lack of chrome for navigation (not unlike what we’ve seen in Clear for the iPhone) really speaks to me. … Read the rest here

Snook Go to the source

So, yeah. I wrote an e-book . It has been an interesting experience and I thought I’d share a few random thoughts on how things have gone so far. Backwards When I first started down the path of writing the SMACSS e-book, I had intended it to be either an e-book or a printed book. … Read the rest here

Hicksdesign Go to the source

There are a few apps that I’m particularly enjoying using at the moment, so I thought I’d share in case any of them are news to you: Choosy Choosy does a seemingly simple task, and does it very well. For a start, it provides a central preference pane to choose your default browser, but its main thrust is letting you choose which browser to open a link in. You can do this either manually via a chooser display (right), or automatically depending on order of preference. My favourite feature is ‘behaviour rules’. For example, I get emails from Opera’s internal bug tracking system, and I always want to open these in Opera, no matter what my default browser is at the time. … Read the rest here

Jason Santa Maria Go to the source

Wow, Little Printer from BERG is such a stellar little example of making something simple and fun. Little Printer lives in your front room and scours the Web on your behalf, assembling the content you care about into designed deliveries a couple of times a day. You configure Little Printer from your phone, and there’s some great content to choose from — it’s what Little Printer delivers that makes it really special. We have an incredible group of launch partners, and in the run-up to shipping we’re working with them all on custom publications. It makes mini personal newspapers! Count me in. Just watch the video and tell me you couldn’t see using one of these things… Read the rest here

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Cameron Moll Go to the source

I’ll keep this brief. I didn’t have a chance to see any of the tributes yesterday (or the news reports for that matter), as I had prior commitments. So, I spent this morning reviewing the day’s events and related material. Following are some of the highlights from my review. The Story of Michael Ragusa’s Burial You’ll have Command+F or Ctrl+F and search ‘ragusa’ to find his story in this lengthy article, as I can’t directly link to it. This was probably the most moving tribute I read leading up to yesterday. … Read the rest here

Cameron Moll Go to the source

My Neighbor, Steve Jobs : Lisen Stromberg: While Newsweek and the Wall Street Journal and CNET continue to drone on about the impact of the Steve Jobs era, I won’t be pondering the MacBook Air I write on or the iPhone I talk on. I will think of the day I saw him at his son’s high school graduation. There Steve stood, tears streaming down his cheeks, his smile wide and proud, as his son received his diploma and walked on into his own bright future leaving behind a good man and a good father who can be sure of the rightness of this, perhaps his most important legacy of all. /via Hacker News … Read the rest here

Cameron Moll Go to the source

Square, the iPhone Credit Card Machine, Goes Mainstream : Alexis Madrigal: I asked Square to make me a map of their transactions to see where they had users. The map you see shows one hour of transaction volume on a Friday afternoon. The size of the bubble represents the volume of the transactions while the different colors indicate the types of users that Square has…. Just about every major city and plenty of smaller places have someone using the device. I was particularly to see that the whole southeast is blanketed with Square users. … Read the rest here

SimpleBits Go to the source

There’s no doubt that employing a mobile first , responsive design approach to a new project is a wonderful way forward for many sites. I think the most exciting thing about seeing these best practices develop over the last few years is that it finally feels like web design. Finally. That we’re not designing sheets of paper that happen to be on screen. So yes, for new projects under the right circumstances a responsive plan is often the ideal… Read the rest here

Jason Santa Maria Go to the source

A fantastic visual game of telephone from Everynone (in Collaboration with WNYC’s Radiolab & NPR). Shut off everything for three minutes and just watch. Then when you’re done, go watch another joint effort from the same team, Symmetry . … Read the rest here

Hicksdesign Go to the source

I’d reached that point in my rides, where I wanted some sort of cycling computer to track my progress and show my route, so I recently picked up a Biologic BikeMount to allow me to use my iPhone. Rather than buy a dedicated unit (such as a Garmin, which isn’t really an option financially at this point) this lets me reuse a device that’s already replaced lots of other separate devices like Camera and iPod. Here are my thoughts after 2 months of use. The phone gets clipped into a sturdy protective hardcase, which is then mounted to your handlebars via a supplied bracket. … Read the rest here

Cameron Moll Go to the source

No Way. SLR Lens Mount for iPhone. : Way. … Read the rest here

Cameron Moll Go to the source

Most Common iPhone Passcodes : Hint: 1234. This isn’t actual iPhone passcode data, but instead passcode data from an app called Big Brother Camera Security whose “passcode setup screen and lock screen are nearly identical to those of the actual iPhone passcode lock.” (From what I can tell, Big Brother is an app not unlike Hidden of This Guy Has My MacBook fame, but for iPhone.) There’s some irony here to behold. Users of the Big Brother app track those who use their phone without permission. And how did Daniel Amitay compile the Big Brother passcodes being used? By quietly, albeit anonymously, tracking users of the Big Brother app. Apptly named… Read the rest here

Andy Budd Go to the source

One of the most common things I’m asked is how people can break into the field of user experience design. I’d love to be able to give a simple answer—like studying a particular course at University or starting as a UX apprentice and working your way up a series of clearly defined roles—but sadly that’s not the case. There are Masters degrees out there, but the good ones are few and far between. With current courses failing to meet demand, there’s no way the education system will be able to cope in the next two to three years once User Experience practice has becomes the norm. Even if you’re lucky enough to attend a good course, unless you had some level of prior experience, you’ll find it hard landing that first job… Read the rest here

Andy Budd Go to the source

A few months ago I tweeted that we no longer needed to sell User Experience and our job was now to focus on delivering good user experiences. A few people asked me to expand on my thinking, so this quick post is in reference to that. I’ve been running a User Experience Agency now for nearly six years. When we started almost nobody I spoke to had heard of the term user experience, let alone understood what a user experience consultancy did. There were a handful of agencies offering “UX services” in the UK, but most were really usability companies. As such we rarely, if ever, came up against other agencies offering a similar service to our own… Read the rest here

Cameron Moll Go to the source

PhotoSwipe, an Image Gallery for Mobiles Devices : HTML/CSS/JS-based image gallery specifically targeting mobile phones and tablets. I’ve just tested this on iPad 1, iPhone 4, BlackBerry PlayBook, Samsung Galaxy Tab, and HTC Aria. It works fine on all of them except the Aria (slow loading for some reason). … Read the rest here

Cameron Moll Go to the source

Flux CSS3 Slider : Hardware-accelerated image transitions using CSS3, which, as described in the readme on GitHub , “improves performance on less powerful devices such as mobiles and tablets.” Indeed, this functions quite well on both my iPad and iPhone. … Read the rest here

Cameron Moll Go to the source

Why Every Child in America Needs an iPad : Mike Elgan: Everybody’s asking: Are iPads healthy for children? I’m here to tell you: That’s the wrong question. The right question is this: Is the iPad a healthy replacement for TV? And I believe the answer is a resounding yes. … Read the rest here

Cameron Moll Go to the source

Bento Book : Core77: The Bento Book is a system of devices that work together… kind of like Voltron. The phone, tablet, hard drive, and battery dock into the base of the laptop to essentially form half of it. The phone becomes the track pad, the tablet becomes a touch screen keyboard/input area, somewhat like a Nintendo DS. Content can be surfed on the tablet, and then say you want to modify that content, or interact with it more deeply, you dock the tablet into the screen to continue working with it in a more focussed way. Then you can pop the phone out to take it all on the road… Read the rest here

Andy Budd Go to the source

The rise of smart devices like the iPhone and iPad has led to an application goldrush, with companies racing to stake their claims. In the early days we saw a few lucky pioneers strike gold with novelty apps. There were also a handful of independent developers and well-known brands that invested in user experience and captured the high end of the market. However, as with most goldrushes, the obvious targets were depleted very quickly. Digital prospectors are arriving to find a very different market, one rife with competition and few obvious deposits to mine. Furthermore, our appetite for apps seems to be dwindling as we fall back on a few must-have staples. … Read the rest here