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What Jurassic Park Can Teach Us About App Development
T. Rex image courtesy of Shutterstock The AV Club recently ran an article lauding how well Jurassic Park has aged over the past 20 years. It’s true: I went to see Jurassic Park when it was re-released...
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Google, Nest, and the Internet of Everything
Globe image via Shutterstock I was surprised and excited to read earlier today that Google bought Nest for $3.2 billion in cash. If you asked yourself, “Why would a search engine that serves ads want...
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Is Paper Solving the Right Problem for Facebook?
Newspaper image via Shutterstock Last week Facebook announced its new app, Paper, and yesterday it was released on the App Store. The app is positioned as a new way to “explore and share stories from...
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My User Experience Reality Check
Stacked rocks courtesy of Shutterstock Last Saturday afternoon I helped my 81-year-old great aunt buy a new computer and set up her home Internet. It was a refreshing step outside of the early adopter...
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Thoughts on Amazon Fire TV
[Note: This applies to everything I write on this blog, but I feel especially compelled to point out here that the opinions presented are my own, and not that of my employer.] Earlier this week,...
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Is It Worth Learning to Prototype in Origami?
When Facebook Paper was released, it got lots of attention for its design. Alongside that came the story of how the app was built. Facebook essentially hacked Quartz Composer to turn it into an...
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iOS 8 Wishlist
Denys Prykhodov / Shutterstock.com Next week Apple will host WWDC and take the wraps off iOS 8. Here’s my wishlist for the software update: Tabbed Mail—I’m going to keep asking for it until it...
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Design Project: iOS for Invisible Apps
Now, we’re entering the age of apps as service layers. These are apps you have on your phone but only open when you know they explicitly have something to say to you. They aren’t for ‘idle browsing’,...
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The Future of Uber Before Self-Driving Cars
Over the long-term, Uber has already said that it wants to get self-driving cars in its fleet, but even Elon Musk says that technology is still 5 or more years away from being a reality. So what will...
View ArticleTask-Driven Apps Are Going Mainstream. Is That Good?
In the past couple weeks, Google has released major new updates to their core productivity apps: Inbox and Calendar. Google effectively reinvented the way people email 10 years ago with Gmail, and now,...
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