Category: User Experience
My Dinner With Android – Four months with Android: reflections, grievances and some tenuous metaphors bundled up into a weighty tome
That pretty much sums up every bit of experience of Android I’ve ever heard.
Ars Technica – Report: iTunes beta suggests app rentals may be in iOS’s future
A rental system would be nice, I hate buying apps that I try out and then get rid of.
ZDNet – AVOS’ Delicious Disaster: Lessons from a Complete Failure
The second (maybe even third) great migration from Delicious is in effect only this time since exporting is broken, people are even more upset.
Daring Fireball – The Case for Going Metro-Only on ARM
When I posted the link about Windows 8 being able to run normal desktop apps, I somewhat flippantly said that it “could keep Windows 8 from being truly awesome”, this is why.
Write for Your Life – Why the Amazon Kindle might be the new iPod
hat’s a key point and possibly the only reason why I might instead stick with buying the current Kindle as opposed to the new tablet Amazon is most likely going to introduce.
The Ad Contrarian – Advertising And The Future Of Apple
Not a bad negative outlook of Apple post Steve Jobs, it starts with a pretty good premise but the conclusion doesn’t jibe.
Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox – Defer Secondary Content When Writing for Mobile Users
Wikipedia’s mobile version while typically not known for it’s usability is used as a good example of hiding information until needed.
Silicon Alley 2.0 – Why my Mom Bought an Android, Returned It, and Got an iPhone
His proposed solution is one that Google should really think about, though even that may not be right.
The Watchmaker Project – How to fix the broken iPad form label click issue
Nice and simple fix, defiantly not quite as common a problem on the iPhone (rarely do I find myself wanting to hit the label vs. the input field).
Shawn Blanc – Reading on the iPad
Not having an iPad I can’t speak from experience but it certainly vibes with how it feels when I’ve tried digital version of magazines such as Wired.