Lately, this thought has been bugging me. It seems like there are three different kinds of app designs when it comes to the iOS platform. Just for the sake of discussion, I am leaving games out of this. Black / Gray Yup. I have seen so many of these types of designs. There are some beautiful ones [...]
July 22, 2010
Hello. Wow. I really let this place go… I apologize. First things first, I am numbering all future posts. Why? I have no idea. I just made that decision on the spot as I typed out this line. Moving on… Recently (see issue 22) I wrote a post at the wonderful Design Informer about Hack Nights at FORGE. Since [...]
July 8, 2010
Sorry it has been so long… Just wanted to point out that I wrote a guest post on Design Informer recently. It talks about using a Hack Night to your own (and agency’s) advantage. It was fun to write it as well as live it. Special thanks to Jad Limcaco for giving me the opportunity for a [...]
May 1, 2010
Behold: The best demo video I have seen in a long time: Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeA9gH_iWXY It’s strange how I couldn’t look away from this. Yes, it’s just a man ironing a shirt. But he does it with gusto!
April 26, 2010
I thought Microsoft finally lost their way. I really did. One would think that after decades of creating operating systems that a vast majority of the world uses, they would probably want to keep pressing on into the drab, mundane and safe UI standards that they have set for themselves. It seemed like they were playing [...]
April 12, 2010
Well Creative Suite 5 has been announced today. Time to get out your wallets and pre-order! But before you do that… In the past, each announced version of Photoshop and Flash Professional caused me to get really excited. Last year, I was frothing at the mouth to get at Flash Professional’s IK features and updated Project [...]
April 2, 2010
Yes, it has been a long time since my last post. Sorry about that. Things have been extremely busy for me in the real world. At any rate, most of my non-blogging time has been filled with iPhone app development. Working with Objective-C and the iPhone SDK has been extremely rewarding. In fact, by June 2010, [...]
March 11, 2010
Recently, I have been hammering away at the iPhone SDK for an internal work-related project and thus far, it has been a very rewarding experience. First things first: my coding background. My first couple of years in college were spent attempting to obtain a Computer Science degree. I took the basic starter classes such as C++, Assembly [...]
February 19, 2010
Since the advent of iPhone OS, user interaction has gone through somewhat of a revolution. Information and interface have been combined into a single, touch-based paradigm which is easy to use, and quick to navigate. Many touch gestures were introduced: the tap, double-tap, pinch, twist, swipe and drag. One major input vector has been removed: the [...]
January 28, 2010
I have heard more people cry about the lack of Flash on the iPad than any other possibly negative part of the device. It’s starting to get a little old, even more so than the coverage on the damn thing. So, it doesn’t have Flash on it. Big deal. The Flash Blog put up this post [...]
July 29, 2010