New personal computing, same old self-damaging pattern

Think about it. We are still paying the consequences of Windows. The User Interaction and User Experience expected by most of the normal people are widely based upon Microsoft Window’s own (ehm…) patterns. The bad design and usability choices that are at the very base of that software (from version 1 up to latest 7), shaped how contemporary users expect to interact with their personal computer. How they should do things. What are the predictable consequences of their actions. ...

April 17, 2011 Â· 3 min Â· 594 words

iPad Simulator in Video and Comments

I would have just posted it on Twitter, but I have some comments about this video. One of the first video of the iPad Simulator Watch it in Full screen at 720p: it help “feeling” the proportions used by Apple in the UI It clarify how it does execute iPhone apps: they most probably implement the iPhone API as is: indeed even the Keyboard that you get in an iPhone application is the same (no super large/super cool keyboard of the iPad ...

January 30, 2010 Â· 2 min Â· 342 words