Touchscreen Misdirection: Your Metaphor Is a DogA touchscreen app can provide useful hints about how it works by using a real-world gizmo as its interface metaphor. But when that gizmo is just eye candy, those hints are just misdirection.
Typetastic New Yorker CoverI'm swooning over this fontabulous cover by Frank Viva.
Flexibility vs Security: Whoops, There Goes Your Credit Card InfoA proof-of-concept Android app shows how easily a hacker could steal your credit card info, underlining an important cultural distinction among platforms: security vs freedom.
Mobile Design WorkshopsI'm putting on my professor cap this year with a bevy of in-depth courses and workshops about creating tapworthy mobile experiences. Here's the lowdown.
Mobile Cultures at IDEA 2010Grab the slides and lowdown on my talk "Going Native: the Anthropology of Mobile Apps."
iPad and iPhone at Design for MobileSlides, notes, and video from my talks at the Design for Mobile (D4M) conference in Chicago.
Tapworthy Webcast Slides and VideoWatch my recorded webcast about iPhone app design, or download the slides.
Webcast Redux: Tapworthy App Design on Sept 14My tech headaches are your windfall. Join me for a do-over of last week's free webcast.
More UX Meetups in ProvidenceThree times makes it an institution, right? Providence's third UX meetup takes place Tuesday, August 24. Join the Facebook group, then stop by to chat design and slurp cocktails with local user-experience pros in Providence, RI.
For Your Consideration: Tapworthy iPad Apps at SXSWGot a second? I need your vote to share my ideas about iPad app design at SXSW. If you're curious about mobile and tablet app design, you're gonna dig this talk.
The Twitter Uncertainty Principle: How Tweeting Changes UsThe moment we decide to relay a personal experience to others, the experience itself changes.
How Big Is Big Enough?O’Reilly Answers recently posted an excerpt from
Tapworthy about the ideal size of iPhone tap targets.
Develop iPhone Apps with Staying PowerThis week at Mashable, I shared some ideas for extending the (alarmingly brief) lifespan of mobile apps. The secret: content trophies, competition, community, and a dash of emotion.
Providence UX Meetup: July 20On Tuesday. July 20, grab a wireframe, a color palette, and a cocktail glass to mix it up with local user-experience pros in Providence, RI. I'll do a lightning talk on Tapworthy apps.
Designing for iPhone 4's Retina DisplayThe gorgeous high resolution of iPhone 4 soothes the eye but adds extra legwork for iPhone designers. Here's the big picture.