Apple just released its iPhone SDK and, in a very Microsoft-ish move, made it only available on Intel-based Macs. Want to port your app to the iPhone? Have to buy Macs for your developers.
Your boss just handed you a design for an RIA (Rich Internet Application) and wants it delivered next month. You know there’ s Flex, Flash, Silverlight, Ajax, and even Java Applets to choose from. How do you pick the technology to use?
There are several considerations, but you need to begin with your requirements.
Choosing the best keywords for your web site to focus on is an important step in search engine optimization (SEO). There are a lot of tools out there to help you do that. I’ll tell you about a good free keyword traffic tool that you can use today.
First, let me say that there is a whole lot more to web marketing than the spray and pray approach. You an trick 10,000,000 people a day into coming to your web site, but to what end. You need very targeted traffic that is interested in your offer.
Everybody is on broadband today, so why not throw up huge 300k+ Adobe Flex applications on all of our web pages? Let’s have 25 unique images and 10 CSS files on every page too!
Performance doesn’t matter anymore right? Wrong.
Culture is a hot-button word of mine, because most people are at a loss to define it. However, it plays a very important part in everything that everyone does. In grad school I thought, and argued, that my professors’ definitions of culture were preposterous. A lot of the academic literature and research on culture has serious flaws that academia seems to ignore out of convenience.
The issue with coming up with a working definition of culture is context. An archaeologist and a linguist might be looking for different things. Different ways of defining and looking at culture may be useful, but not interchangeable.
What do handwriting analysis, the Ouija board, pendulums, and dowsing have in common with human experience design? Answer: the ideomotor reponse.
Ideomotor action describes motions that are made without conscious volition. More importantly, these motions are made in accordance with belief and expectation. The movements might be simple, such as a twitch, or extremely complex - like handwriting.
There are approximately 232,000,000 Internet users in North America, and Apple sold about 500,000 iPhones last week. That means that around .21% of all North American Internet users have iPhones. While it’s a little early to look at iPhone browser statistics, some major US sites that I am aware of are getting about 0.04% of their traffic from iPhones.
This may indicate that most iPhone users do not use the device for primary Internet access. I’m guessing that this number will go up, but not too high unless the AT&T service that iPhones work on stops sucking. Apparently the service in most areas will have the speed of dial up - ouch!
Web accessibility is about ensuring access to web content to people with varying abilities, using varied technology. Many people think of web accessibility as making their web pages able to be read by screen readers for the blind, but it’s so much more than that.
Assitive technology does include screen readers, but also screen magnifiers, and methods for people with motor-related disabilities. Accessibility guidelines also cover people with colorblindness.
Making sure your web site is accessible is not just a nice thing to do - it happens to make great business sense.
Today at 6PM Eastern time the long-anticipated iPhone will be released to the public. People are already lined up outside Apple and At&T stores to grab up the first batch. It’s predicted that Apple will sell over 200,000 units in the next few days - and they probably will.
Will the device live up to the hype? Yes and No.
From the world of hypnotherapy, here is another reason to keep your designs as simple as possible. Remember a time when you were at the theater or a show and you just became absorbed into what was going on? What happened was that you went into a state of trance akin to hypnosis.
Here’s why, and how that relates to design.