As an 8th year CTIA attendee, it’s always interesting to see how technology is growing and how it’s reflected at the show. The days of mobile entertainment companies touting the “gotta-have” ringtone are over. Instead, the CTIA exhibits and sessions are focused on apps and tablet trends.
Discussions abound about how tablets have changed the way...
Read moreWhen designing for mobile, keep in mind that you are typically not designing "on" mobile. In the Universal Mind UX studio, we just completed an initiative for SoDA—The Society of Digital Agencies—to create the annual SoDA Report on iPad and Kindle Fire. A key element of our best practices in UX design is to test and view our work...
Read moreIn less than a week we more than likely get to view the new iPad in all its glory. However, for most traditional consumers this won’t give them the full picture. Improved hardware specifications and new hardware features should give developers a reason to rejoice, but what does it do for the end user? As a software architect I like to look at...
Read moreMany marketers are starting 2012 with mobile apps at the top of their to-do list, but while churning out a quick one-off app is fairly straightforward, developing a strategic application or digital “solution” is considerably more complex. Smart planning is essential.
Here are ten things to consider before developing your app:
1. Agree on...
Read moreToday Apple introduced a new version of their iBooks iOS application alongside a new content creation tool, iBooks Author. This move was focused entirely on bringing textbooks to the iPad. After analyzing both Apple's announcement and the two newly released pieces of software, I have some interesting observations.
Why the iPad?
I think it is...
Read moreDigital publishing grew tremendously in 2011. With the unveiling of new technologies such as the iPad 2, the iPhone 4S and Amazon’s Kindle Fire, we’ve dramatically changed the way companies will disseminate information for years to come.
But we’ve only begun to scratch the surface of what’s possible in this...
Read moreRemember buying a vinyl record or even a CD, ripping off the plastic and having an immediate glimpse into the back-story of the music project… all while holding something in the palm of your hands?
With a move to streaming music and digital downloads, we’ve lost some of the connection and back-story we used to get from vinyl and CD albums. It seems...
Read moreIn your pocket right now is the most powerful “remote control” (as Drew Diskin put it) that has ever existed. It is no ordinary remote control. It can harness everything that all of the previous mass media (television, radio, Internet, etc.) can do. People aren’t using them just for simple entertainment or for phone calls. They have become the hub...
Read moreThe news was hard to avoid last night. The conjecture on the future of Apple without Jobs steering the ship will go on for longer than I care to pay attention.
This is the beginning of Steve Jobs’ departure. Apple will never be the same.
Most of the sentiment is that people are sad to hear the news and are taking the time to reflect on his...
"With new entrants like the Samsung Galaxy and the Motorola Xoom, the market for tablet computers is heating up in the United States, even though iPad continues to dominate the conversation – and market. That’s the word from The Nielsen Company’s latest in-depth research on mobile connected devices, which was fielded in Spring 2011."
The full...
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