Let’s go back in time a bit – over a decade ago. Macworld, 2007. Steve Jobs stood before a crowd of True Believers and revealed not just one, but THREE revolutionary new products. A new, Innovative widescreen iPod. A next-generation…
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Lessons in #UX: On Discoverability and Learnability, where Apple doesn’t “just work”
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Do Apple do user study or usability testing on its products at all?
No evidence, I'm afraid (I aspire to be a good enough UX designer that someday I MAY be good enough to work for Apple) but I can offer a couple of observations that, as Sherlock Holmes might state, leads one…
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Interaction Design on the iPad: the apps you need
I have read scores of pundits talk about the iPad being a “consumption device,” that it’s for enjoying content and not creating it. To all these talking heads, I say “phooey!” The iPad is a great device to be creative…
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Banking on the iPad: Evolutionary or revolutionary?
Originally posted on Atmmarketplace.com… The iPad, Apple’s much-hyped new tablet device, was released last month to some measure of success — over 1 million units were sold in just 28 days. Clearly, the device has found an audience, more than…
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Lessons in UX – “If we understand the extremes, then the middle will fall into place.”
I just finished watching the great documentary on industrial design Objectified, which has interviews with many of the best designers in the history of the domain, including a personal favorite of mine, Apple’s Jonathan Ive. One moment early in the…
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Why micro-interactions like 3D Touch is a #UX trend worth paying attention to
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Chasing the new: Confessions of an early adopter
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Lessons in #UX: How to design the best wearable experience
There are two big topics in technology right now: The Internet of Things and Wearables. While I have some very distinct opinions on the former, I’ll leave that for another day. Today I’d like to discuss the space called “wearables”.…
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UX, nude selfies, and the cloud
If you were paying attention to pop culture news this past weekend you’ll have seen that a whole lot of photos of female celebrities, in various levels of undress, leaked onto the Internet. The photos, illegally taken from the iCloud…
Apple, Technology
Happy 30th Birthday Mac!
I join my many tech and design brothers and sisters today in wishing a happy birthday to the Macintosh computer. Yes, I know inanimate objects don’t really have birthdays, but with the Mac it feels appropriate to use the word “birthday.”
The Mac was the first real PERSONAL computer, a machine that aligned with what users needed to do and empowered people to do things that was in the realm of complete fantasy just months before.
I learned how to do graphic design and layout by using a Mac, and while I am a user of both Windows and OS X, I still have a fondness for the Mac.
Here’s the video of Steve Jobs revealing the Mac to the world for the first time:
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When the exceptional becomes commonplace, Apple is in deep trouble
I, like many other tech fanboys, was glued to my computer screen early this month during Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference keynote. What new products or software would be revealed? Would the rumored iWatch be shown? Was Apple going to…
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Reaction: Why iOS7 is MORE skeuomorphic, not less
“It’s flat, just like they said it would be!” That was the immediate reaction I saw from one of the tech pundits commenting on today’s introduction of iOS7, Apple’s new operating system for its iPhone and iPad. There have been…
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Photos: 2013 Vintage Computer Show and Apple “Pop-up” Museum
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The connected home is Apple’s for the taking
There’s a huge battle taking place between tech companies, one that doesn’t getting nearly the attention it deserves. It’s not the fight between Google and Apple in mobile, or Facebook versus Twitter in social… It’s the fight for our living…
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Why didn’t Apple make a Leather Smart Cover for the iPad Mini?
I’d say it was a combination of aesthetics and functionality. Aesthetically, the iPad mini doesn’t NEED a cover, because its small and light. A cover would protect the screen, but… It would “thicken” the device and (in my opinion, and…