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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
I was just skimming through the Windows Vista User Experience Guidelines and while in the Design Principles section I came upon this title, and I just had to laugh: There is a point where marketing ceases to be marketing and becomes information; relevant, valuable information. There’s also a point where something, truly informational becomes marketing. […]
John Gruber writing on Apple’s choice of AAC as the DRM-free format sold on iTunes, makes this interesting comparison: Apple’s use of AAC in lieu of MP3 is analogous to the Mac’s switch to USB in 1998. USB was an industry standard that wasn’t taking off because PCs didn’t ship with built-in USB ports, which […]
Over at The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Scott McNulty has a review of Google Desktop for the Mac version 1.0. If QuickSilver were not enough, may this provide Apple the substantive reason to improve the speed and responsiveness of Spotlight. Please.
One of my favorite bloggers, Scott Stevenson, recently wrote about a subject near and dear to my heart, namely, some Simple Truths About Cross-Platform Apps. Scott makes some great points: Mac users bought the computer they did because they found the experience more appealing. Bringing an application across from Windows with minor tweaks simply won’t […]
Don Norman has published a wonderful excerpt from his next book “The Design of Future Things” set to publish in October 2007. The excerpt is purportedly a research missive from future machines to other machines on how to deal with people. Certainly some of us lowly humans can relate to the difficulties of communicating effectively […]
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