A few years back, let’s say 2006, iA put together an impressive redesign of Facebook that provides a much cleaner feel and a cool horizontal information flow from less to more specific. Filter to info stream to reaction as they put it in the article. I dig the clear hierarchy of the columns and the [...]
Todd Lapin shot a video of his 2.5 year old daughter playing with the iPad for the first time that’s been getting a lot of link love on YouTube (embed below). The video’s very cute and points to easy iPad adoption by iPhone users of all ages. The video doesn’t get into some points of [...]
My first thoughts on the iPad included a lot of concerns about not being able to create on the iPad yet and pointing toward graphical applications as the quickest road to delivering that. iPad specific answers to the creation challenge are appearing. This video for iMockups places a nice face on these answers.
There have been varied reactions to the iPad but those that most interest me are those that go beyond Apple’s marketing message of “the iPad is a new thing that will revolutionize computing” and ask “where will this revolution lead?” An angle I find especially interesting is expressed in Alex Payne’s On the iPad. What [...]
The long awaited Apple tablet is announced. We’ve had the opportunity to “see [their] latest creation.” Time to consider what it all means. Pre-release expectations Talking with friends about the iPad back when we were all still speculating on the name we came across rumors that dashed our early hopes. The tablet would most likely [...]
Jacob Nielsen has released information from their eyetracking study, F-Shaped Pattern For Reading Web Content (Alertbox). My initial reaction was a knee-jerk “well, duh.” Part of this is seeing similar results from other eye tracking studies, but it may be me trusting in assumptions about how people scan pages. Seeing “common sense” assumptions reinforced by [...]
As part of their Apple Turns 30 coverage, CNET’s showcasing photos of the early Lisa and Mac interfaces, courtesy of Bill Atkinson and Andy Hertzfeld. For a somewhat less garish (though smaller) presentation of those same photos fortified with historical notes goodness, check out Hertzfeld’s “Busy Being Born” article on Folklore.org. Whichever flavor you choose, [...]
Austin Govella gets an interesting conversation going about technological developments swirling around what some are calling the “come to me” web. Structured content, microformats, json, rss and atom flavored web feeds, and other technologies are making our information more portable, but where do people fit into this improved info portability world? How will people use [...]
Jensen Harris has a fine post on her MS Office user interface blog about steps they’re taking on the new version of Office to keep the interface consistent on day 101 to what it looked like on day 1. (So after months of using Word you don’t have twelve floating toolbars in your face that [...]
Yahoo done a wonderful thing! I stumbled into the design patterns piece of it on del.icio.us Monday, but during my periodic look at mezzoblue, the details became more clear. Not only has Yahoo made available to the public a set of design patterns, but a UI library and other tools. Rather than duplicating details here, [...]