The iPad, Gestures, and Community

February 18th, 2010

Multitouch and gestural input needs community consensus on meaning and representation.

Wonder Bread iPhone App

February 10th, 2010

In my absence from interactive marketing and subsequent rebound in my faith in humanity, Wonder Bread drops some reality on me.

UX in Bed

August 21st, 2009

One of the questions I ask when working on a new project is, “Where will people use this?”

My iPhone User Experience Book!

August 10th, 2009

It’s shorter than I would have liked, and took longer to write, but it’s nice to have it in my hands.

Death of the Apple Halo Effect?

August 3rd, 2009

Every iPhone and iPod Touch owner I know hates iTunes. Apple should take notice.

iPhone Apps are Not Banner Ads

July 27th, 2009

Installing an iPhone app is work. If you make users work, you owe them something valuable.

Is Google Ruining Mobile Advertising?

July 10th, 2009

Admittedly, my opinion is that mobile advertising should shrivel up and die. That said, if it’s going to exist, the UX should be at least tolerable and, preferably, stellar.

Mobile Designers and Empathy

July 6th, 2009

I think the growing importance of mobile devices in our everyday lives can give a new perspective on baseline users, perhaps leading to more time spent providing amazing, elegant assistive applications and reducing the importance placed on gimmicks.

Badge Blindness and iPhone Push Notifications

June 16th, 2009

Don’t flood devices with flippant text or audio push notifications. Understand the disruptive impact of those messages and avoid them unless they are absolutely necessary. And repeat this mantra: “Push notifications are rarely necessary!”

The Twitpocalypse and Unit Testing

June 13th, 2009

If ever there was a clear example of the need for unit testing during builds, it’s the integer overflow problem on Twitter – aka, the Twitpocalypse.

Preaching iPhone UX

May 19th, 2009

I have spent a fair portion of the last year preaching good UX for iPhone developers.

iPhone Unit Testing with Ruby

July 4th, 2008

Well, Dr. Nic is kicking ass again.

Though I’m a recent convert to rSpec for my Merb work, I actually prefer to unit test Objective-C with OCUnit. I think it’s just part of that prejudice that tests should be written in the language of the app. Also, the more ‘natural’ it feels to write tests, the more likely folks will do so. In my experience, a great number of Obj-C developers have no interest in writing tests in the first place…

Unit Testing and the iPhone SDK

June 15th, 2008

If anyone sorts out how to get the SenTest framework to play nice with Cocoa Touch apps, kindly let me know.