Jun 10

What excites me about this week

The delicious generation of User Interface Design

WWDCFor many this week will come and go, but among Apple users and fans this week will have us glued to our screens waiting to see what Steve Jobs has up his sleeve. There are many speculations about what might be “announced” at this year’s WWDC. In the past Apple has used this week to release new hardware, updates to the iPod and OS upgrades. This year will be slightly different, there isn’t much in the pipeline as far as hardware (minus a much needed display update) and the current iPod is still fairly new especially if you lump in the iPhone into that category. That leaves us with Leopard… much has been talking about regarding the “secret features” of Leopard that Jobs will unveil tomorrow. While I’m sure the “secret features” will be nice thats not what I’m most excited about. I’m excited about what could potentially be the largest changes to the UI in the history of Apple, if not in its history then at least in its recent history (after the original release of OS X).

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Mar 20

Wired.com "Redesigns"

A critical look at Wired.com's new design

Wired.comSo today on chat a friend of mine ping’d me with this: “Have you seen the new redesigned wired.com?” Oh, man I got to see this, I thought. “Oh, wow” was the first thought in my head, and not the kind of “oh wow” you would think, it was more like “oh crap what did they do!” The new wired site is hideous (only my opinion, I’m sure there will be some that love it), its a lot of things that could have gone right, gone wrong.

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