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February 3, 2010

iPad User Experience Guidelines  →

Apple's Human Interface Guidelines for the iPad outline how to create user interfaces optimized for the iPad device. According to Apple, the best iPad applications: downplay application UI so that the focus is on content; present content in beautiful, often realistic ways; and take full advantage of device capabilities to enable enhanced interaction.
via uxmag.com

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February 3, 2010

What the iPad Means for the Future of Computing  →

If you think about how a computer like this will impact people sociologically, suddenly the iPad is far more than a larger iPod Touch, as many have described it. It’s the computer for everyone: an idea Apple has been working toward for years.
via wired.com

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February 2, 2010

iPad GUI PSD  →

That was quite fast. Please note the white rectangle with the blue LEGO piece in the upper right area.

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February 1, 2010

"Microsoft tries to reinvent the bar code"  →

via news.cnet.com

Creating fancy QR codes: http://www.microsoft.com/tag

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February 1, 2010

Standing in the middle of a lake  →

That's not a Google Maps error, the Hamburg Alster lake is frozen up and you can walk around the whole surface (as 70.000 people did last weekend, according to the press). Geo-tagging trivia.

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January 31, 2010

Alster on the rocks.  →

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January 30, 2010

Fraser Speirs: "Future Shock"  →

For years we've all held to the belief that computing had to be made simpler for the 'average person'. I find it difficult to come to any conclusion other than that we have totally failed in this effort.
via speirs.org

Read the whole article.

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January 28, 2010

iPad peripherals?  →

via img.ly

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January 28, 2010

New York Times on Apple iPad  →

via geek.com

As expected, there's a native New York Times Reader App on the freshly announced iPad and it reminds me a lot of Times Reader 2.0, an Adobe AIR-based application for PC. Apparently it has been co-developed by teams of the New York Times and Apple.

Times Reader 2.0 already sort of indicated that, with its flat information architecture and higly flexible layout that dynamically adapts to different screen sizes. I always thought it could also easily be scaled for the TV - the adaptive grid mechanism already works great in HD and font sizes can be changed; and again, the navigation system works with five keys (you can also control the whole browsing and reading experience with your PC keyboard).

I always liked the Times Reader - it has a very well-thought and polished user interface and works much better than most other AIR-based apps I have seen so far. Also, I think the rather print-oriented visual design is perfectly appropriate for a newspaper application and combines both worlds in a very elegant way. And that's something that will very likely improve a lot with devices such as the iPad (please read what Mario Garcia has to say about storytelling in this regard).

The Times Reader 2.0 is an alternative presentation of New York Times print issues, though. There's a subscribtion model behind it, subscribers of the print version get it as a free supplementation - quite handy if you're not at home or wnat to go through older issues. While I fully understand that approach from a strategic and business point of view, I think it's a major drawback for my personal reading experience. What I love about Times Reader 2.0 is the way it let's me consume news content, and that's nowadays much more than the print issues. As a loyal reader of the Bits Blog, I really want that kind of interface for all New York Times content that is available online. And I'm not saying I want it for free.

I think it will be inetresting to see if the New York Times app for the iPad is going to offer the full scope of available content - including all these great multimedia features and data visualizations.

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January 27, 2010

Thread-Parties  →

I'm quite fascinated how conversations around Facebook wall postings sometimes evolve. I have something around 300 contacts on Facebook, all from completely different contexts: from school, from places where I worked, family, close friends, casual friends etc. Sometimes, very surprising constellations of people are mixing within the comments on wall posts and I always, just for fun, try to imagine all these different people together in a room. How would this work, what kind of conversation would arise and so on. So the next step could be: a (real world) diner or a party just for people that have been part of a certain Facebook thread. Did something like this already happen somewhere?

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