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Understanding Google’s material design
Strip away the hyperbole and two basic principles underpin Google’s material design:
- On-screen elements adhere to consistent physics
- Physics may be expressed through a Z axis of depth, as well as the traditional X and Y axis
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Recognising a moment of mobile progress
Yesterday I was able to watch a live stream of Google’s IO keynote from San Francisco on a Blackberry Q10 travelling at up to 70 mph as a passenger in a moving car through the rural East of England.
It represented one of those watershed mom…
Local Lego answers creative industry challenges
Improvement requires change, whether that happens gradually through iteration or in big leaps through sudden sparks of creativity. This is true of improving anything, from companies to individual products. It’s something I think about a lot in…
Retro trend calls out poor voice experience
Blackberry has announced the re-availability of the Bold 9900, a 3 year old, USD 449 device running the previous generation of Blackberry software, but renowned for its battery life, voice call quality and keyboard. Meanwhile, there are a …
A switch too far
…I had to constantly switch between two completely different UIs, two completely different user experiences. I had to go through a mental context switch… — Taylor Martin, Pocketnow
Taylor Martin of Pocketnow describes the counter-intuitive…
Preserving the medium and message of digital artefacts
In 100 years time, will it be important for your descendants to be able to look back at the digital artefacts from your life in the same form you experienced them? For instance, today I could look back at a letter written by my great, great grand…
New communication filters
Twitter is planning to replicate parts of its India election strategy across countries that go to polls this year, after it emerged as a key tool for politicians and media companies during the world’s largest democratic exercise…the company …
Effective cross-modal input pairings
Cross-modal input thrives when discrete and continuous modes are paired. For instance, precise touchscreen input and the analogue feel of accelerometer-controlled tilt motion. Some pairings are more obvious than others – focus on what seems na…