An accidental discovery I thought I’d write down so I don’t forget. On the iPhone simulator, option left-click simulates two-finger clicking: option-click and drag simulates two fingers sliding in or out for zooming in or zooming out. Likewise, option+shift left-click simulates two-finger dragging: option+shift and drag simulates two fingers dragging with equal spacing across the [...]
Good design represents a visual “language” of sorts: when deciding upon the elements of your interface, your book, your map, you are designing the language that you are using to communicate with your reader or user. You are, in other words, giving the subtle cues which say “stop here”, “this is important”, or “this is [...]
… is realizing that I’m old enough to be most of my fellow classmate’s father.
When I started this blog, my intent was to limit my discussions to computer development and technical topics. However, in another life I’m also deeply fascinated by politics and economics, and I’m also fascinated by development, especially housing development issues. And today’s mortgage crisis is a perfect storm of problems that all land in my [...]
Proof again That It’s the Artist, Not the Tools Except when it comes to programming languages: Photoshop 3 is fine if you do visual graphics, but Java is an utter failure if you write user interface code. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiight….