Tuesday October 13, 2009
It dismisses what is universally pleasing about reading – the sensuousness of the physical page. A devise worthy of replacing our books must improve upon the page, not sacrifice it.
The Kindle Can't Last Snippet posted by Matt Donovan in Books, Mobile, Technology .
Thursday March 5, 2009
This is floated through my mind while walking down the hall to get a drink:
“The future of interaction design is so circular – dials, ripples… water is a good analogy for Surface interactions. It’s organic – people understand how water reacts to the touch. Ripples. Ripples are so automatic. They just do stuff. What if the Surface was actually water… and the real ripples made things happen. Liquid computing! The AUTOMATION!!!”
Stream of consciousness on Microsoft Surface Snippet posted by Matt Donovan in Interface, Microsoft, Technology, User Experience .
Friday January 9, 2009
If your RSS feed is well-highlighted (like, so a 6 year old could subscribe to it) and contains the right level of detail (unlike this blog), then your experience design should really focus on first-time visitors. Great blogs never require me to return.
Welcome. Now, don't come back. Snippet posted by Matt Donovan in Accessibility/Usability, Interface, Usability, User Experience .
Thursday January 8, 2009
Search engines ask me all kinds of questions about what I’m looking for, but don’t bother to ask me why I’m looking. That’s odd to me.
I have my reasons Snippet posted by Matt Donovan in .
Tuesday December 16, 2008
I’m not normally in the habit of cleaning off my whiteboard right away, but since I’ve started using Russ’s window I feel it would be unneighborly of me to constantly leave it cluttered with my work. As I was erasing it this morning, I mused that a clean whiteboard, like a clean kitchen, is a sign of productivity. This doesn’t hold true for every kind of whiteboard usage, but generally the longer I leave junk up there, the longer before I actually digest and use the information. The idea should be to work out a problem, capture it and move on.
An empty whiteboard is a sign of productivity Snippet posted by Matt Donovan in Accessibility/Usability, Visualization .
Monday November 17, 2008
Nick Merritt posits on why Apple creates interfaces with higher perceived quality than their competitors:
It is not just enough to make using something easy … When it comes to deciding what choices to make, it helps that a team has a supremely clear vision of the role the technology is going to play in the lives of its users, as the original Mac team did, as I suspect, the iPhone team does today, and to be fair to Microsoft, the Surface team has.
Read the full post, Why Apple is great at interfaces when others are not on TechRadar.com.
"The Much Under-appreciated Principle of Pleasure" Snippet posted by Mark Kraemer in Apple, Interface, Microsoft, User Experience .
Thursday July 31, 2008
VMWare Fusion users … VMWare Fusion 2.0 Beta 2 now available !
Very nice new features for even more seamless experience with OS X. Very cool mirrored file structure, launch docs using OS X applications, and more.
VMWare Fusion 2.0 Beta 2 Snippet posted by Mark Kraemer in .