Tempo

The best part of this is how seriously it re-thinks what a...

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 11:00:35 -0500

The best part of this is how seriously it re-thinks what a calendar even is.

I really cant wait for it to work with exchange.

Goodbye to All That

Sat, 17 Nov 2012 13:39:00 -0500

The removal of Scott Forstall from his role as head of iOS is going to end up being a huge positive gain for Apple. As ridiculous as skeuomorphismwas in most of Apple’s work, what was worse was the damage it did to the vaunted hardware software pairing. Using an apple device has felt like walking up to a BMW, opening the door and finding it filled with velour seats.

A lot has been written for and against Forstall’s design view and while I think that’s a discussion worth having, it misses a larger point. Specifically, Apple cannot move forward as an iconic design company with competing design visions appearing in the same product. With John Ive in control there will be good and bad design just as there always has been, but there will also be a singular vision that’s been badly missed.

Google Travel

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 12:35:47 -0400

Starting to imagine the kind of mobile travel product Google could put together by combining the Google Now work with Zagat, Frommers and their flight search data. If they can actually integrate owned high quality content (not UGC) with their robust toolset it would be a completely amazing customer experience that has eluded just about everyone.

Google really paying off on the here and now aspects of strong...

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 09:52:00 -0400

Google really paying off on the here and now aspects of strong mobile design

interesting as a navigation standard

Mon, 30 Jul 2012 11:29:37 -0400

interesting as a navigation standard

Pretty smart Path…pretttttty smart…

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 09:58:20 -0400

Pretty smart Path…pretttttty smart…

Video

Mon, 09 Jul 2012 10:23:39 -0400

Seriously embracing a system like this might help prevent...

Sat, 07 Jul 2012 11:25:14 -0400

Seriously embracing a system like this might help prevent showrooming through service but it still wont help the fact that internet fueled price transparency makes it easy for shoppers to be buyers somewhere else.

Unless they plan to jam cell signals I don’t see this...

Fri, 06 Jul 2012 09:08:07 -0400

Unless they plan to jam cell signals I don’t see this trend changing.

Every time I see an article about showrooming I wonder about just how overbuilt retail is in the U.S. The retail vacancy rate is hovering at around 11% and we’re still on the straight up part of the online shopping hockey stick. Since to some degree the online / offline fight is a zero sum game, there will be a point where certain kinds of retail businesses just aren’t viable as brick and mortars any more. Strip malls are already adapting with tenants that cant be moved online (restaurants, gyms, etc) but at what point do Radio Shack and Footlocker start winding down? Do we really need a physical GAP? I have a hard time believing there will be enough restaurants and barber shops to take up the retail slack.

Don’t love the analog bits but the type and color are nice

Wed, 04 Jul 2012 09:22:55 -0400

Don’t love the analog bits but the type and color are nice

Nice and simple

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 12:30:01 -0400

Nice and simple

Apples announcement of passbook, the scannable ticket / discount...

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 12:27:55 -0400

Apples announcement of passbook, the scannable ticket / discount / boarding pass card app makes a ton of sense. Done well, the app would grease the wheels for all kinds of digital to physical transactions and even create the behaviors needed to support a transition to NFC. Brands without these experiences should be able to build them more easily and without the added cost of distribution / activation.

I wonder though if the losers aren’t every brand who took the initiative to build their own stand-alone experience and just found the bar for entry lowered for all their competition.

Nicely done, simple weather app.

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 09:45:22 -0400

Nicely done, simple weather app.

Getting really close to the way I want to move photos between...

Thu, 24 May 2012 13:12:11 -0400

Getting really close to the way I want to move photos between devices

just a nice design

Sun, 06 May 2012 09:33:07 -0400

just a nice design

It's More Than Fear

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 10:16:00 -0400

It's More Than Fear:

I would amend this to say, clients need to get over their fear of mobile marketing, while agencies need to get used to starting their conceptual thinking on mobile opportunities instead of porting from the desktop.

http://www.mobilecommercedaily.com/2012/04/27/agencies-need-to-get-over-their-fear-of-mobile-marketing

Propellerhead’s really slick interface makes a pretty...

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:57:38 -0400

Propellerhead’s really slick interface makes a pretty complex task seem very approachable

Nice to see AR used for utility instead of entertainment (and...

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:25:27 -0400

Nice to see AR used for utility instead of entertainment (and actually work!)

A lot of very nice touches in this app, particularly some of the...

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:30:05 -0400

A lot of very nice touches in this app, particularly some of the gesture based controls

"….wait: Who needs the Web?"

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 09:59:19 -0400

“….wait: Who needs the Web?”

- http://www.technolog.msnbc.msn.com/technology/technolog/apps-could-be-overtaking-web-says-report-528483

If you ignore the apocalyptic language about corporations and manipulation (yawn), you get the beginning of a picture where the generic browser web is being left behind by the curated focal web (apps). The fun thing to think about here is, for years, everyone in mobile has assumed apps were a stop on the way back to the normal, generic browser web. Now though, with no sign of apps abating, you have to start to wonder if we have been watching the permanent fragmentation of browsers away from different flavors of generic, all purpose tools and towards a set of company, purpose and information specific tools (apps).

If this happens, as designers, we only have ourselves to blame. The get-Anything-All-The-Time nature of most web designs always favored showing off company org charts at the expense of getting users the information or tools they actually wanted. Now users have the option for streamlined, pointed tools that do only what they want…why would they use anything else?