While having breakfast with some friends, the question “What’s your favourite product from a design point of view of all time”. It was an interesting question and some of the answers were totally linked to people’s backgrounds and personality. My mate N said the book, a product that’s still used hundreds of years [...]
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The iPhone is not just a phone
It’s a starter Mac.
I’ve had an iPod touch for about a month and a half now and I’m about to buy a Mac. Having had a Blackberry for over a year and a Windows mobile before that, and a Nokia for most of my adult mobile using life, I’ve tried all the different major handsets [...]
Is it the economy or is it too much growth too fast
I’ve been thinking a lot about corporation size lately. In part because of all the layoffs around a number of big companies right now. In the UK they use the word redundancy, I hate the word redundancy and I don’t understand how organisations can grow without real needs, so how does an organisation [...]
Why I won’t be switching to Chrome just yet
Google’s launched a new browser, Chrome, and it’s nice. Sleek, very very very very fast (the Usain Bolt of browsers), easy to use and download, and it’s running on web kit and its open source so it’s extensible.
But I won’t be switching from Firefox, my browser of choice, just yet. I’ve tried [...]
Downturns and design
I’m reading subject to change by the good folks at Adaptive Path right now. It’s an interesting book that discusses features and design and why people like using what they like using. It’s all round good stuff.
At the same time I’m reading a lot about the credit crunch and how people are no [...]