Apple iPad and Windows Phone 7 Series for Interaction Designers
Two new, exciting UIs are about to launch this year – let’s get our tools and templates ready.
Mobile
The Shape of Things to Come
The introduction of every new device and UI increases the need for scalable solutions, ideas and execution.
How-to’s and who-do’s
There have been plenty of useful articles in Smashing Magazine lately, from a Google Analytics guide to best practices in social network design. But the latest one to hit my radar is this: “How to Create Your First iPhone Application.” It goes from idea to necessary tools to research and sketching and programming. Submitting your [...]
Nokia N97: there is more to come
This is not a phone blog nor am I a mobile blogger. But I recently bought a Nokia N97 (white, unlocked, North American model), and I think that with all the other reviews already out there, it’s a device that still deserves another look at what it’s all about. This review is from my own [...]
Augmented Reality is Becoming Reality
I wrote a new post about augmented reality (AR) – the combination of real world and computer-generated data – in Organic’s Three Minds blog today. There are some very interesting mobile AR applications, like Wikitude for the G1 phone, already available, and Nokia’s launching a similar concept called Point and Find soon. Read the whole [...]
We are close to something big
At the Nokia World event in Barcelona, Nokia today unveiled the new N97 ‘mobile computer’, as the company calls it. The feature list of the device, which combines a touchscreen and a QWERTY keybord, easily tops the iPhone’s features, with 32 Gb of inbuilt memory (expandable up to 48 Gb), 5 megapixel camera capable of [...]
Phone to control everything at home
The concept of the home of the future, or a ‘smart home’, has been explored since at least the early 20th century. In a smart home, the residents would be able to control everything from lighting and heating to security, audio and video systems by the touch of a button, or perhaps just by entering [...]
IA now
I’ve put together a new, short presentation on what IA is now, at the crossroads of web 1, 2, and 3.0. The emerge of social media, new levels of information and interaction, and portability raise the need for new ways of working and documenting design architecture, but the new doesn’t replace all of the old [...]
What ever happened to Fidg’t?
KillerStartups and several other sites featured Fidg’t, developed by the LA-based company Protohaus, as a very promising new tool last year. Fidg’t is a “social networking address book” that promised to help users to aggregate all of their social networking sites and group them into meta contacts. In other words, put all your friends from [...]
Media X.0
Inspired by this quite old illustration I saw on Flickr, created by Peter Forret, I wanted to create my own version of it. In my version, I added or changed a few examples, and changed the structure of the illustration a bit, but it’s still very similar to Peter’s original. I took out the title [...]