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iPad, shame about the name

Monday, February 8th, 2010

On the day of “the announcement” the excitement was building and the conversations, rumors and guesses were heightening to a fever pitch. I tweeted out earlier that day: “If it’s called the iPad someone should get fired”. That may seem extreme but I stand by it.

I still think this because who did they test this on? Who was asked about the choice? How was it decided? I go through often in my sessions that testing is essential to design, and I think as much as the product will have been tested, the name is also important.

It may not seem a huge deal but actually I hate saying it. So I don’t. That’s not good PR. Also because of all the childish jokes I am embarrassed to say it. I am referring to it as the Tablet or iNewton.

oh ya and searching for information on an iPad actually showed ads for Ann Summers.

Erm thanks for that Google, but not quite what I was looking for! I’m not sure how they could have gotten something so essential so wrong. *disappointed*

EAVB_OPWHPRWAMY

 

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Jonathan Ive Interview

Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

YouTube - Jonathan Ive interview

Apple’s industrial design guru talks about his works.

 

Tags: apple, design, interview, Jonathan Ive
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App store turns one…

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

This Saturday is the mark of the App Store turning 1.

Over 50K apps to choose from.

WOW!

(more…)

 

Tags: android, apple, apps, edge, games, iPhone, ipod touch, one year
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The Web this Week…

Saturday, December 13th, 2008

Visited a lotta great links this week so I thought I’d write a post with a listing of them. 

Mashable

The first one is about Microsoft’s new ‘notebook’ called ThumbTack basically a great tool for researchers (Mashable has a great article about it and the others, link above).  Currently Google Notebook seems to be at the top of the list, and there is EverNote and UberNote too (a long list of others) Along with that is the information that Microsoft Office will be preparing web versions of their software.  This article from the BBC explains the move.

Wired Blog on eyeborg

This is great -  Canadian filmmaker will be putting a camera in his eye, what an amazing idea! “Rob Spence looks you straight in the eye when he talks. So it’s a little unnerving to imagine that soon one of his hazel-green eyes will have a tiny wireless video camera in it that records your every move. ” from Wired Blog.

GiveReal

Turning virtual drinks into real ones Also from Mashable <—- review & information 

Betavine

This next link was in a @ryancarson tweet, basically an open community for mobile application developers.  This link specifically to a great place to create widgets. 

AwayFind

AwayFind basically acts as a web filter.  It is so you can choose which emails are vital and that you do want looking at quickly.  Could be a good solution if your the type of user who has alot of email to get through and just needs it prioritizing. Describe as “The online equivalent of having an administrative assistant screen your mail and only bother you for the important things.” by Web Worker Daily

Microvision

This is Microvision, purely cause I want one! (little projector that you can use with your iPhone)

Macrumors: Apple Patent

And lastly, this Patent released “revealing research that Apple had done in 2007 on many topics encompassing future versions of Mac OS X. The most intriguing is a series of patent applications which describe a “Multidimensional” user interface. Apple has essentially been working on true 3D desktop environments. ” from Macrumors

That last link, to the Apple Patent I had to include as it appeared yesterday, and just this week I had started the beta for BumpTop, so pretty topical.   (which is worth a look at, also watch amazing demonstration by Anand Agarawala at TED.

Ok, those are the links, that does seem to be a pretty huge list, but I loved them all for different reasons and thought they were worth a mention.

~ Hey - if you have any great links you’ve come across this week please post them for me, I’d love to check them out!

 

Tags: apple, betavine, eyeborg, givereal, microsoft, notebook, patent, Technology related, The Websites
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