Tag: Tech
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Immersive Apps vs Immersive Content
App shouldn’t be immersive, but their content should be. Immersive app experiences are created by removing unessential elements from the screen. Anything that isn’t content is hidden so that your user’s videos, photos or texts can take up the entire screen. It’s wrong to try and create this same immersion throughout your app though, and…
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From Searches to Apps to Siri
When the App Store was launched on the iPhone, for the first time people could do things and and access many of their favourite services through native apps. These apps used navigation controls, fluid animations, and custom interfaces that were tailored for mobile use. This was different than the desktop where most tasks on the…
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It Works Just Like Your Phone
iCloud is a big step in making the Mac work more like how people expect. Whenever people have bought a computer in the past, I doubt they’ve ever paid any attention to how they’ve opened and saved documents, and until a few months ago, nobody ever had to think about how data on one computer…
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The New Outlook.com
I forgot to mention it last week, but the new Outlook.com was launched and is one of the first publicly available applications to use the Metro interface. Like I’ve mentioned before on the blog, people haven’t gotten many opportunities to use Metro. They’ll want to try using Metro soon because it’s going to be launched…
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The End of the PC Manufacturers
Daring Fireball Linked List: Acer Chief Takes Aim at Microsoft Surface: Here’s the problem for Acer and all the other PC makers — what alternatives? Linux? No one wants it. Android? Google’s in the hardware business now too. That’s why Microsoft can make this play — the PC makers have no leverage. I read this…
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Designing A Better Email Client
I just read the introduction to .Mail, a new email concept, and came up with some thoughts of my own on how email clients should evolve. What email clients lack is that they don’t meet the needs of the information being communicated within messages. For as long as I’ve been using email the information objects…
Flow Focused 