iKnow iDeas
A fun parody of Apple. The product? Paper napkins.
Category: apple
Transitions
You may have heard the saying, “It’s the journey, not the destination.” I like this saying, but I have never applied it to user interface design. Normally, when prototyping or sketching up a UI design, I focus on the end states, the screenshot. Once you have that, you link screenshot to screenshot in a kind […]
Apple Form Factor Evolution: 1976 through 2007
Core 77, one of my favorite design blogs, links to Edwin Tofslie’s visual time line of Apple products from 1976 to the present day. Very cool. Print this out, then put a mark by each device or accessory you’ve personally touched at least once. It’s the perfect Mac User Group conversation piece. 🙂 Enjoy the […]
The 1.0 that wasn’t
From what I can gather, the biggest problems with the iPhone seem to be as follows, in order of severity: You can only use AT&T network The EDGE data network is slow The keyboard takes some time to learn Making a phone call can take more “taps” than with other phones No way to Cut, […]
iPhone Activation and Sync
Before we knew the iPhone was real, the common wisdom was that in order for Apple to make the experience something of acceptable quality, they’d have to own or at least rent the cell network. Take a look at this iPhone activation and sync video. This is clearly an Apple experience, simple, clear and elegant. […]
Rubber Edges
I spent some time today playing with the iPhone and there’s one interaction I just love. It’s that when you scroll to the edge of the web page, the iPhone allows you to drag/scroll as far as you like past the edge. It just lets you stretch right past the edge into the “grayness”, but […]
iPhone. A Guided Tour.
This week Apple has released a 20 minute guided tour of the iPhone that shows in great detail the new user interface. You can download the high quality version here. Apparently there are millions of people excited, even hysterical, about the iPhone’s release this Friday. I must be out of the core news/media channels, but […]
iPhone requires iTunes account?
I just got the second email from Apple after signing up with them for breaking iPhone updates via email. I read the mail a little bitterly, since I felt the least they could have done was to send me an email when they had the ship date nailed down. Well, the tone of the email […]
Forward Looking Font Display
Yesterday, Apple released their own Safari 3.0 web browser for Windows XP and Windows Vista. Amid the security and performance comparisons, folks are also noticing that Apple has also ported their own sub-pixel display technology to Windows. Joel Spolsky summarizes the differences sucintly: Apple generally believes that the goal of the algorithm should be to […]
Apple Slips Leopard to Oct 2007
From Apple’s Hot News web page: Apple Statement iPhone has already passed several of its required certification tests and is on schedule to ship in late June as planned. We can’t wait until customers get their hands (and fingers) on it and experience what a revolutionary and magical product it is. However, iPhone contains the […]
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