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Category: design

  • It is tiny houses all the way down…

    People have been asking me about my downsizing, amazed that we would get rid of all our books, clothes and empty our living room of all the furniture. Their eyes get even bigger when I say we are looking to go from the 1000sq ft. home we are in now to something around 700. But…

  • Resources for Web and Mobile accessibility

    Derek Wilson, a Career Development Practitioner with the Neil Squire Society, visited the Okanagan Developer’s Group yesterday to discuss with local devs accessibility online and on mobile. He gave us a demonstration of various assistive technologies such as VoiceOver and the Rotor on iPhone, and JAWS a popular (and expensive) screen reader application. It was…

  • MLS FAIL: A tale of two many plugins I wanted to hear MLS Commissioner Don Barber speak about BC Place but I ended up getting a terribly unhelpful message to install Flash, with no fall back. Not very good design at all. So I fired up Chrome to watch the video only to be denied…

  • MLS FAIL: A tale of two many plugins I wanted to hear MLS Commissioner Don Barber speak about BC Place but I ended up getting a terribly unhelpful message to install Flash, with no fall back. Not very good design at all. So I fired up Chrome to watch the video only to be denied…

  • “We meet again, Papyrus!” (cf. @zeldman Screencap from Motion 5 features page.

  • “We meet again, Papyrus!” (cf. @zeldman Screencap from Motion 5 features page.

  • The HIG is undead

    Yesterday’s was a great episode of Hypercritical by @siracusa about Apple’s (lack of) UI consistency. This topic struck a cord with me as someone who spends their days teaching new computer users. As a teacher, my gut reaction is to hate apps that do not follow the HIG. I understand Tog‘s argument about GUI quote-unquote…

  • [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTts8elSDeE?feature=oembed&w=500&h=374] Jony Ive on the 20th anniversary Mac… with hair! Apple has been producing these long production videos long before the Unibody MacBooks. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

  • Excellent artwork from this Economist article about Apple vs. Google. Fave quote: Tony Curtis, who died in October, was buried with his iPhone, like a pharaoh anxious to update his Facebook status from the afterlife.

  • Excellent artwork from this Economist article about Apple vs. Google. Fave quote: Tony Curtis, who died in October, was buried with his iPhone, like a pharaoh anxious to update his Facebook status from the afterlife.