Guidelines Done Right: Microsoft Metro
I’m working on apps for three platforms at the moment: Apple’s iOS, Google’s Android, and Microsoft’s Metro. Because the three are similar yet different in critical ways, I’ve had to refer to the respective UX guidelines for each several times in the past few weeks. Wihtout equivocation, and with some surprise, I can report that ...
A New Project: Designing a Windows 8 (Metro) App
I’m excited to report that I’m currently working on an app for the new Windows 8 OS. As a lifelong Mac user and avid iOS fan, it’s nonetheless exciting to be designing for a totally new platform like Windows 8, with its unique visual language that eschews skeumorphism, and innovative wayfinding schemas. The timeline is ...
Sparrow: a Minimalist Review
If you, like me, feel that Apple Mail is suffering from feature bloat, getting slower and more unwieldy with each new release, Sparrow might be the minimalist alternative you’re looking for. Sparrow allows you to focus on email without distractions. As such, it foregoes some niceties (and even some must-haves), but after using it for ...
My Autism App: A Setback
Unfortuantely, my plans to develop a simple Web- and app-based autism evaluation tool for concerned parents has hit a snag: the American Psychiatric Association denied my request to use their DSM criteria for autism as the basis for the tool. However, hope is not lost: I have some ideas about how I might incorporate other ...
User Testing on the Subway
On the subway this morning, I spied a passenger playing a sudoku app on his iPhone. At the risk of disturbing him (and winding up with a broken nose), I said, “Pardon me, but I see you’re playing a sudoku app. Would you mind looking at one I’m developing for the iPad?” “Sure!” he said. ...
Me on Blodget on Siri
Henry Blodget is convinced that Apple’s iPhone-based voice recognition tool, Siri, poses absolutely no threat to Google search. He’s even more certain than Google’s own Eric Schmidt. How is he so certain? Let’s analyze excerpts from his article to find out, shall we? “I don’t even have an iPhone 4S yet, but I’m still ready ...
Magical Weather
Magical Weather is a new weather app for the iPad, and I can already hear you asking if we needed yet another weather app. I thought the same thing, until I tried it. Magical Weather differentiates itself from other apps in its minimalist approach. Instead of trying to make the most of the iPad’s capacious ...
A Font of my Own
If you’d like to use my admittedly rough and misshapen handwriting … well, printing … for yourself, you can download this font for free.
