Mar
31
Skype on iPhone
March 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment
I am not sure how I hadn’t heard of this before (maybe because I went out of town the last 4 days and didn’t even take my laptop!) I was ‘off the grid’ for a while….really enjoyed it, actually.
Regardless, I was perusing the blogosphere this morning as well as monitoring Twitter and Facebook. Lo and [...]
Mar
26
Web 2.0
March 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment
I have met interesting people as well as learned all about new technologies at each of these conferences, so there is no way I am missing this year.
It is coming up quickly
Mar
25
The Twitter Experience
March 25, 2009 | 1 Comment
Somehow, I don’t know if I’ll be twittering as much in the future after watching this.
Mar
17
iPhone 3.0 Software
March 17, 2009 | 1 Comment
Macworld did a great job of giving us a live commentary of what the improvements would be for the new software.
Rather than repeat them all, here is the link to the commentary:
Macworld iPhone 3.0 Commentary
There will be additional announcements over the coming week, but they did manage to get some of the 15 features I [...]
Mar
16
15 iPhone 3.0 features we’d like to see
March 16, 2009 | 2 Comments
Tomorrow (March 17, 2009), the new iPhone 3.0 software will be revealed and explained in Cupertino and there has been plenty of hubbub since the inception of the iPhone asking for new features. Here is an article listing the top 15.
System wide custom cut/copy/paste
Push notifications/background apps
Landscape mode in every app
Mail improvements
Sync notes & To-dos
Better app [...]
Mar
14
UX in an Agile Development Process
March 14, 2009 | 1 Comment
I had a conversation with a colleague yesterday about Agile development environments and how it is difficult to evangelize usability and design with UX in mind. While I argued that it was completely possible to keep usability as a priority while still scrumming constantly and pushing the envelope of development, I realize that in larger [...]
Mar
12
Why I Returned the Blackberry Storm
March 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment
In a previous post, I talked about Why I got the Balckberry Storm. A couple days ago, I returned it and went back to a non-smart phone. Let me tell you why.
Over the course of the last year and a half, I have gotten quite used to (and fallen a little in love with) my [...]
Mar
12
Sixth Sense Seamless Technology
March 12, 2009 | 1 Comment
Ted continues to be cutting edge and exciting.
The idea of having pertinent, semantically appropriate information literally at your fingertips in the moments you need it to make a decision about your next action is what we really want. This technology could make it happen. Its called Sixth Sense and is being developed by Fluid Interfaces [...]
Mar
12
Apple iPhone 3.0 Software
March 12, 2009 | 3 Comments
Some invitations went out today (I still haven’t received mine, Jobs!) for the March 17th conference in Cupertino to talk about the latest iPhone software and SDK that will be released.
The 2.0 software release about a year ago hailed in the flood of third party applications that made the app store a primary destination for [...]
Mar
3
Reviewing a Website
March 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment
As usability consultants, we are often asked to look at websites and give our ‘opinion’. It is important that we keep the most important factors in mind when looking at a website from the outside when WE are the users. A great article about reviewing websites on UX Matters.
http://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2009/02/reviewing-user-interfaces.php
