First thoughts on Firefox OS
Having spent some time with Firefox OS last week, I thought I would share some thoughts on the platform, and a few key aspects of the…
Product design 101: Part 2 – The automobile
A while back I wrote a post about the way product design is changing. You don’t just build, ship, hope for the best and swear you’ll…
Would you like a tablet with those fries?
My local ASDA (Walmart UK)PgroceryPstorePjustPput up a fairly substantial Nexus 7 POP display…at the front door, next to the place where people who didn’t travel by…
Stranger things have happened
@tef pointed me to this lovely little bit ofPhistory…a cache of design notesPand “statements of architectural principle” compiled by Tim Berners-Lee between 1996 and 2003. A…
Product design 101: 2012 edition
Bryan couldn’t sleep last night so he decided to play a game on the PlayStation. He turned it on and was told it needed to update…
7 inch tablets and other oddities
As rumours spread of a possible 7″ iPad and Google announces it’s Nexus 7, smaller tablets are already proving quite popular in Asia. I first ran…
It’s about the content stupid
Here’s a revolutionary idea. What if all sites were lightweight? Seriously. Wouldn’t the world be a much better place? Oh but sorry, I forgot. Users want…
How do you personalize a glowing rectangle?
One of the reasons I love Asia is that personalization is so important here (or maybe all of us like to personalize…but in AsiaPthere are far…
Steve Jobs on man as a tool maker
Jason Kottke’s recent post The iPhone, an automobile for the mind, discusses the same Steve Jobs anecdote on man as a tool maker, that I used…
The curious properties of software
Been thinking a lot lately about the need to focus, simplify, and devise useful and future-friendly efficiencies for the web. A certain level of simplification (and…