links for 2007-05-08
May 08, 2007 | Comments-
"Blog all you want. You're still not getting laid"
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Mad little game. I love the handwritten style though
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Fun for July :)
links for 2007-05-06
May 06, 2007 | Comments-
Awful :)
links for 2007-05-05
May 05, 2007 | Commentslinks for 2007-05-04
May 04, 2007 | Comments-
Christian's talk from MEX
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"If you start to compromise your entire construction just to use regular repeated elements you will not only build an inadequate item but will suffer from looking like every other of that type in existence and loose the edge of being individual."
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Look at the stats on that
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+1. When I started out I was one of those folks who didn't "get" what antialiasing did and why it mattered.... ooh I learned that sharpish :)
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This really annoys me; for a company that's so Not Evil it's a pretty grotty thing to routinely do. Not that the competition are much better
MEX day 2
May 03, 2007 | CommentsMore bits and pieces from MEX since my last post:
- What's the cost to the operator or handset vendor of adding in context-aware features, compared to the (commercial) benefit?
- 61% of women carry a phone in their handback. 60% of men in right trouser pocket.
- A great presentation from Argo Group showing off real-world results from their test suite: response times for text messages during NYE, what happens when things go wrong with MMS delivery: "you need to think like the user, test like an engineer"
- Fantastic break-out session with Christian Lindholm, Scott Weiss and chums: including revelations about large internet portals taking a more scientific approach to usability than handset vendors; the need of insight and intuition to make great products (whereas usability can get you to "good");
- Measuring device usability by counting numbers of support calls generated;
- Christian wondering out loud why the Motorola Z8 has such a Series-60 like UI during a panel session including Matthew Menz, Head of Interaction Design at Motorola :)
- Annti Ohrling of Blyk talking about their research and their intention to concentrate on text-message push marketing
All this, and a verbal kicking from James Pearce too, after I ventured the idea that fragmentation (as a consequence of open standards) was in one way an opportunity for companies like FP (or others who are out there solving device fragmentation problems - Argo Group, Volantis, etc.). Never been told that I should be ashamed of myself by a speaker at a conference before :)
Nice to catch up with you afterwards tho James :)