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iPhone(TM) vs *droid
Switching environments is always a good time to reflect on their relative merits… I’ve just left Android for iOS and have some thoughts on the matter. First, the timeline… a loyal Blackberry user through the 2000s, I was used to a few basic concepts like “email in my pocket” and “talk on the phone”. Apps…
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User Interface and Experience: How Important Are They?
UI and XP design and development are undeniably a big deal, but they’re only part of the problem. What size part? That depends on your sales model. For a consumer product designed to sell itself via the web, it’s well over half of the problem. UI and XP are pretty much the only differentiators for smartphone social media…
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at least once a week
Every internal technical email list I’ve ever been on has had one of these conversations: A) module XYZ didn’t work by itself, what’s up? B) superstition and voodoo, XYZ will EAT YOUR SOUL. C) did you remember to click the button? A) seems to work okay when you click the button, but maybe I’d better…
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GTFOffa my lawn
http://acko.net/blog/on-termkit has me thinking about a conversation I had with a friend last week… The gist is that easier entry levels mean lamer entrants. Oh, we can spin it so many ways… cheaper entrants! Entrants who aren’t wasting their time on unimportant details! Or we can question what they know if they go from throwing…
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What Technology Wants
Kevin Kelly’s What Technology Wants was a pretty good read, but I found myself disagreeing on a fundamental point… I don’t like that it treats technology as something separate from humanity. Perhaps I’d feel differently if I hadn’t read The Artificial Ape: How Technology Changed the Course of Human Evolution first, but I did. That book’s argument that humanity…
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