My screenplay for a Steve Jobs biopic is coming along nicely.
Missing the bit about the poster of a single rounded rectangle that hangs over his bed, but A++ will read again.
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Tractors and User Interfaces
The designers of the Phelps farm tractor in 1901 based their interface on a metaphor with the interface for the familiar horse: farmers used reins to control the tractor. The tractor was steered by pulling on the appropriate rein, both reins were loosened to go forward and pulled back to stop, and pulling back harder on the reins caused the tractor to back up
Apple vs Samsung by Helder Ollveira
iOS Mail - The icons represent instructions on how to fold a paper airplane.
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Clever iPad Docking Station by Scott Eaton at Venus of Cupertino
Rechner: World’s first gesture based calculator app for Apple iOS by Berger & Föhr.
The litigation and all this OS wars stuff gets old, fast. But c’mon, that’s funny.
Flick Scrolling
You might wanna watch the video above, but in short: When scrolling content on a touch-screen, instead of letting momentum stop the scrolling, you can decide exactly where it should stop. It stops at the point where you flicked it.
It would be great for things like books, blogs, timelines or anywhere where you don’t fly over, but continuously wanna “move forward”. Kinda like paging but within and long scroll. Some apps have a page up/down feature, but I don’t really use it because it moves always the whole height and might cut off a picture or so. With this “flick scrolling” you can decide to where it should move to. The last paragraph or beginning of a picture.
Why not just use pages or cards? Yes, that works sometimes, but not always, especially not when you have no control over the content. iA wrote a good post about it: Scroll or Card? With flick-scrolling you get the joy of “card flipping” without the cards.
Here the two demos from the video so you can try it out (only tested on iOS).
Warning: I’m not really a programmer so the demo is just a hack to demonstrate how it could work. Would need some improvements. And of course, performance would be better if it would be implemented natively.
One thing I’m not sure about.. there is the possibility that you intend to do a flick scroll but end up doing a normal scroll or vice versa. You can judge for yourself in the demos. Maybe the detection could be further optimized or here some other possibilities (Let me know if you can think of more).
- Use a two-finger scroll. But then you can’t use just your thumb which makes it not that useful.
- Split up the screen into two areas, for example left for normal scroll and right for flick-scroll.
Credits: Demos use the iScroll4 library and in the timeline demo, the “scrollToElement” feature is used, which is a pretty cool one.
Terrific job. Want.
iOS - autocomplete text has the same typeface and style as the underlying text field
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Not centered. Phail!
Design lessons from popular iOS game “World of Goo”.
Thoughts on Jack Dorsey, by Steve Jobs
Jack,I have no problem with your success. You’ve earned your success; for the most part. The problem is, you wholesale ripped off my identity. Grand theft. I don’t mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way. You are not just trying to be the next me, you are trying to be me….
Go the read the whole thing, it’s hilarious and has a good point.
"The trouble begins with a design philosophy that equates “more options” with “greater freedom.” Designers struggle endlessly with a problem that is almost nonexistent for users: “How do we pack the maximum number of options into the minimum space and price?” In my experience, the instruments and tools that endure (because they are loved by their users) have limited options."
Brian Eno, “The Revenge of the Intuitive,” (13 years ago!)
Even though this came out 13 years ago, this stuff was fairly obvious to anyone who followed Steve Jobs’s thoughts on the topic; he was saying this same thing about 30 years ago.
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Neat new Wikipedia app for iPad and iPhone — Wikiweb.
Neat new ad from iPod creator Tony Fadell’s new company, Nest. The ad’s very Apple-esque, but this trend is going to get boring real soon imo.
