The Tiger Escapes
People who pre-ordered Tiger are beginning to receive it. I’m still anxiously awaiting my copy. I am getting a copy, right, Apple? I still haven’t been told one way or another. It’d be nice to know…
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Image Editing
In light of the news of Adobe buying Macromedia and the upcoming release of Tiger, the recent announcement of Stone Design’s iMaginator has me hopeful.
I don’t necessarily place much faith in Stone Design’s ability to create an elegant user interface (especially after seeing their web site), but what it does mean is that other people […]
Jef Raskin Passed Away
Jef Raskin, one of the pioneers of Apple’s GUI and many other interface ideas, has passed away. He is the author of the excellent book, The Humane Interface. His modern views were in some areas somewhat extreme—but fields need extreme views. He was probably one of the main people who represented what I would call […]
Even Microsoft Employees Agree
Looks like my explanation of why the iPod’s interface is good is echoed by Microsoft employees as well.
The Microsoft manager said he’s heard from several executives who dutifully bought Microsoft-powered players, tried them, failed to get them working, and returned them in favor of an iPod. He went through the same experience, he said.
Wired News: […]
The Voices in Apple’s Head
A lot of the reading I’ve been doing for two of my classes has involved computer-mediated communication of some form or another (not surprising given one class is Computer-Mediated Communication and the other is Applications of Cognitive Psychology). One thing that keeps coming up is the fact that aural communication is better than purely text-based […]
iPod and the Nature of Interfaces
Over the past few weeks there have been a number of articles like this one basically saying that people are really stupid for buying the iPod shuffle.
Let’s try to get a few things straight about the iPod and interfaces in general. Interfaces are not like most other things in this world. You do not benefit […]
Pages in Mirror are Closer than They Appear
People are beginning to post articles explaining exactly what I thought when I initially saw Apple’s Pages:
My take, from the keynote and just a few minutes playing with Pages on the show floor: Apple is lying through their teeth when they call it a word processor. It’s not. It’s a page layout program.
It doesn’t compete […]