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Cambio 11 Dec 2008 | 11:36 am
I never used to be particularly interested in designing mobile applications. I just thought it was a hopeless platform, plagued by tiny screens and keys that were designed for inputting numbers (how o...
Tofu 2.0.1 10 Sep 2008 | 09:47 am
Tofu 2.0 was released yesterday, which allows reading simple PDF documents, has a less obtrusive full-screen mode, supports scrolling on MacBook trackpads and is a Universal Binary (that is, it includ...
The science of keyboard design 8 May 2008 | 09:21 am
The Handbook of Human–Computer Interaction, edited by Martin Helander, Thomas Landauer and Prasad Prabhu, is a book published in 1997 that attempts to summarise research relevant to the design of inte...
Hyphens, dashes, et cetera 5 May 2008 | 11:08 pm
I have a thing about correct punctuation, and although I'm aware that most people would find me over-zealous in this regard, I would bring to my defence that it's not just a pointless obsession or a p...
Surface computing, move over! 28 Dec 2007 | 06:08 am
For a few weeks now, my two team-mates at work and I have been using a “horizontal” whiteboard, lying across the desk surface between us. I had been wanting to try this for a while, but it wasn’t poss...
Neutech desktop background redux 16 Nov 2007 | 06:10 am
There was once an appearance theme for Mac OS 8 and 9 called Neutech, by Flanksteak Design. I don't think I particular liked the theme as a whole, but it included a desktop background that has been my...
Namely 2.5 5 Nov 2007 | 09:11 am
Sorry to be late by a week or so, but there are several reasons why I didn't get a Leopard-compatible update to Namely out sooner. First of all, I didn't have Leopard any earlier than most of you; I ...
Coupland and Helvetica 11 Oct 2007 | 10:34 am
Douglas Coupland last night at the Bloomsbury theatre in London (at what he said was probably his last ever book reading): ...and someone said making a film about Helvetica is like making a film abou...
Redesign 18 Sep 2007 | 09:12 am
What you're looking at is the first redesign, or in fact the first proper design at all, of my blog. The previous design was just a somewhat tweaked version of a standard Blogger theme. This one, on t...
Making sense of standard deviation 1 Sep 2007 | 11:47 pm
I love the feeling of getting to understand a seemingly abstract concept in intuitive, real-world terms. It means you can comfortably and freely use it in your head to analyse and understand things an...
