I did in fact finish my Cocoa Pie Menu implementation in time to be presented, written about, and submitted for class. Behold:
I of course have a quick little test application making use of the class. I will post that later. For now if you’re curious you can read the paper [pdf] I wrote for class. […]
Continuing from before:
Some more comments on convergence of devices. I’ve quoted an old “Ask Don” on the topic and a newer article I ran across recently.
Simple, single purpose devices work better and are easier to learn. Multipurpose devices are more convenient. In the ever-continuing quest for simplicity and convenience, What comes around, goes around. Today simplicity, tomorrow […]
I’ll comment on it more later when I have more done. But for now, I’ll give you a quick screenshot:
Hooray for open-ended projects. :)
More often than not, it’s a Good Thing that users can learn and adapt to new software and new situations. Unfortunately, as my advisor Dr. John Anderson showed many years ago (with emacs and “perverse emacs” no less!), there can often be what is called “negative transfer”—users learn something so well that they want to […]
Today Microsoft has given the world a sneak peek at Office 12. Given that there’s a fundamental paradigm shift in the interface and a lot of strong reactions, I figured I would offer my comments on the matter.
One of my former design teachers (he was a grad student, taught the Visual Interface Design course I took) has finally put into words the reasons that personas are often bad ideas.
As he says, personas can work wonders when done well, but if you aren’t going to bother to do any sort of user research […]