Earlier this year Google acquired BumpTop a 3D interactive touch user interface (I could have used more adjectives!). Here’s hoping we see some of this in the Andriod 3 release rumoured to be in the 4th Quarter of 2010. This UI alone would make me go out an buy an Andriod tablet. Who doesn’t love [...]
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Will we see this in Andriod 3 (Gingerbread)?
Posted: 26th October 2010 by Grant Perry in Android, Mobile, Usability, User experience0
Want to see the website you worked on in 2001?
Posted: 13th October 2008 by Grant Perry in UsabilityAs a part of Google’s tenth birthday celebrations they have published their oldest archived index including the cached pages from this time. The archive is from 2001 so they’ve appropriately named this “Search 2001“. I looked up a couple of sites I’ve worked on since and was supprised to see in 2001 they were using [...]
Buzzzzzz on frameworks and libraries
Posted: 24th August 2007 by Grant Perry in Javascript / AJAX, PHP, Usability, Zend FrameworkThere’s a lot of buzz with Frameworks and Libraries these days, and rightly so, without them some projects I’ve worked on would still be under construction!!! Developing with frameworks and libraries will save you time in both development and testing. The abundance of functionality some provide often mean you’ll end up with a better end [...]
Its very poor practice to use the text like “Click here” as links. Some browsers, particularly some for disabled users, provide a summary of links throughout a page. If this practice were to be adopted throughout a page, a list of links like this would be presented to the user: Click here Open this Here [...]