Category Archives: User Interface Design

iPad

By take21 | Published: April 30, 2010

cd-roms and ipads – analysis of publishing as a workflow and why iPad will not save glossy magazines. “For those of you blessed with senile amnesia or youth, CD-ROMs were the first wave of “interactive media” in the mid-eighties, and the great hope for publishing houses struggling to understand what they might be doing in the […]

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iPhone OS 3.0

By take21 | Published: March 17, 2009

Live iPhone OS 3.0 event coverage from gdgt.com “We are SO excited about this. Incredible features for devs and our customers. Let me re-cap: in-app purchase, peer-to-peer connectivity, accessories, embeddable maps, push notifications, cut/copy/paste/undo, landscape keyboarding, MMS, new app (Voice Memos), CalDAV / ICS subs, stock enhancements, search and Spotlight… just a few of the […]

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Inside BBC: How we make websites

By take21 | Published: February 5, 2009

Michael Smethhurst Information Architect @ BBC radio labs How we make websites A Slideshare presentation of the text. Inevitably, a bit technical: the BBC build database driven websites which handle a huge amount of content. Also, and understandable by anyone interested in building any sort of website, some of the sketches and diagrams they use […]

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iPhone NDA, patents, innovation

By take21 | Published: August 8, 2008

Extract “At my company, our lawyers advised us to keep what we considered more-or-less public software under NDA for a very long time because demoing software to someone under NDA, no matter how many people it is, avoids “publishing” the software and any inventions contained therein.  We know Apple’s been building up a patent strategy […]

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Free software usability

By take21 | Published: August 6, 2008

Matthew Paul Thomas has a piece which tries to get to grips with the causes of poor usability in Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). He doesn’t dodge the problems and their origin in FOSS development methods and the rewards for participating in FOSS. He also has proposals for tackling the problems. Free software usability […]

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5 reasons to avoid iPhone 3G

By take21 | Published: July 22, 2008

From the Free Software Foundation The 5 real reasons to avoid iPhone 3G: iPhone completely blocks free software. Developers must pay a tax to Apple, who becomes the sole authority over what can and can’t be on everyone’s phones. iPhone endorses and supports Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) technology. iPhone exposes your whereabouts and provides ways […]

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‘usability trainwreck’

By take21 | Published: July 22, 2008

Video comparing usability of the Open Moko mobile phone operating system with the iPhone. Unfavourably. Comments point out that it will get better. True, and Open Source success stories like Firefox took a long time before achieving stability and widespread adoption. Question is, how long are you prepared to wait? Open Moko usability trainwreck More […]

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‘usability trainwreck’

By take21 | Published: July 22, 2008

Video comparing usability of the Open Moko mobile phone operating system with the iPhone. Unfavourably. Comments point out that it will get better. True, and Open Source success stories like Firefox took a long time before achieving stability and widespread adoption. Question is, how long are you prepared to wait? Open Moko usability trainwreck More […]

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Mapping, GIS, disease

By take21 | Published: July 21, 2008

“A system of electronic mapping which allows many different types of data to be layered onto a single image is being used to improve healthcare across Rwanda. The digital maps, called Geographic Information Systems (GIS), are designed to compile information from numerous databases and use it to both track and predict outbreaks of disease. This […]

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PicLens

By take21 | Published: July 18, 2008

Sometimes you need to know about new software right now. This is one of those moments. PicLens from Cooliris is an immersive, full screen environment that displays content (images and Flash video) as a dynamic wall of thumbnails. The wall can be manipulated with the click of a mouse to scroll and zoom, and you […]

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