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Customer Service, Design, Gold Star, Interface, Mobile, Thoughts
iPhone + Starbucks: now with movement
Remember those super slick mockups from a while back for what a Starbucks + iPhone integration might look like? Well, follow this link and check out what they might look like in action - its a nice peek into what a well-executed retail app on a phone might look like.
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Design, Locative, Mobile, Thoughts
Controversial article on Apple’s big miss with the iPhone: social networking
Philip Elmer-DeWitt explores an argument by a Swede named Peter S. Magnusson about how he sees a huge missed opportunity for Apple with regards to the iPhone. This goes beyond the run-of-the-mill wishlists (copy and paste, MMS, user-replaceable battery, etc.) that have been bandied about since the launch.
This particular omission is a new angle and [...] -
Mobile, Thoughts
iPhone SDK - what will it be?
As Apple’s SDK announcement draws closer, let the speculation begin… John Gruber of Daring Fireball has a good piece up about the upcoming event and what may or may not be announced.
Recently I’ve been thinking about what my expectations are but rather than be practical, let me say what I really want them to announce: [...] -
Mobile, Thoughts
Thoughts on “The Death of Mobile Applications?” by Dan Harrelson
Dan Harrelson takes issue with Michael Mace’s much ballyhooed article this week on the death of mobile applications in favor of experiences delivered via the mobile web.
Harrelson argues:
Sorry, but it’s simplistic to assume that native mobile apps are now dead in favor of web mobile apps. Mobile is just seeing the same tension [...] -
Design, Mobile, Process, Thoughts
Mobile design in a nutshell: “Don’t design for ‘mobile’ - design for mobility”
Peter Merholz of Adaptive Path does a great job distilling all the talk around mobile design down to one concept that, despite its simplicity, often gets overlooked (and overcomplicated).
People’s inclination is almost always to try and do too much with a mobile experience than their users will ultimately be willing to learn and [...] -
Design, Mobile, Thoughts
Guess what? Mobile Applications aren’t where its at…
Back in 2004 when Dennis and I were getting dodgeball off the ground we always saw having a downloadable application as somewhat of a Holy Grail - not the Holy Grail mind you, but we thought it was not only pretty cool, but also “important” that we have one.
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Mobile, Thoughts
SHIFD launches. Will you use it?
Shifd, a product born from the BBC Hack Day London competition has launched in Beta today. I’m going to play around with it this week but it seems like it might be a decent way to send yourself reminders/todos and have access to them from multiple machines (including your mobile).
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Gold Star, Interface, Mobile
Socialthing’s launching some great looking updates at SXSW
…and I’ll be there to give them a test run. Amongst other things, it looks like they might launch some of the features that will let you update various sites from their unified interface:
As well as a great looking iphone interface:
The most exciting piece of news to me is the sneak peak at a slick [...]
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Design, Mobile, Thoughts
8 Mobile Trends for 2008
Christian Lindholm, formerly of Nokia and later Yahoo weighs in on 8 things to look out for in 2008 when it comes to mobile. The top three that get me most excited are: Beauty Is Back, The Mobile Net Becomes Useful and GPS Is The New Camera.
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Customer Service, Mobile
Mark Cuban embracing technology yet again
Mark Cuban has often been a few steps ahead of his media contemporaries in terms of grasping the potential of technology, for better or worse. In this case he blogs about exploring what kind of added services he could offer patrons with networked devices at the American Airlines Center in Dalls (in this case [...]
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