“I like being able to find stuff. It’s easier to organise a small amount of stuff. It’s easier to find a specific thing when there’s only one place it could be.”
August 19th 2010
iPhone iPad Summit: Twitter Contest »
Retweet this message to have a chance at winning a free ticket to the online iPhone iPad Summit on August 25 (regularly $179). The Summit is a one-day online conference around iPhone/iPad development. I will be speaking about building iPad apps with Sencha Touch, along with:
- Jonathan Stark, presenting on iPhone offline mode
- Jesse MacFadyen, presenting on Phonegap
- Dan Rubin, presenting on Mobile Design with CSS3
- And many more…
The winner will be chosen at random at the end of the week.
Bringing back Caturday, just for this one.
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“I think there’s actually a very good reason why we should, in fact, embrace the term “HTML5” as an overarching buzzword for this latest round of web standards and specifications. Our industry has proven on several occasions that we don’t get excited about new, interesting, and useful technologies and concepts until such a buzzword is in place.”
Jeff Croft, On the term “HTML5”
“The internet has dramatically widened the number of available substitutes. You don’t have to like it, but it’s true. That means you have to work far harder to create work that can’t easily be replaced.”
Seth Godin, Accept all substitutes
These screenshots compare the Where To? 1.0 design (released on day one of the App Store) and an Apple patent submitted in December 2009. FutureTap describes their concern in a recent blog post:
I’m not a lawyer. I can’t really judge whether the inclusion of a 1:1 copy of our start screen in someone else’s patent is legal. I just have to say, it doesn’t feel right.
Travis Isaacs has created a very useful presentation on SlideShare, detailing the whys and hows of making wireframes like a ninja with Keynote. You can also purchase his toolkit for $12 at Keynote Kung-Fu.
Thoughts on Designing for the iPad »
Designer and web veteran Derek Powazek offers his thoughts on leading the design of the MagClould iPad app and how it differs from designing for the web.
Also noted:
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“Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow...”
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Just boarded a 10+ hour flight to Europe.
The bad news: there are three five-year-old boys sitting in the row behind me.
The good news: this bar...
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