This may sound like a weird idea coming from someone who thinks with the right half of their brain, but I think technology professionals need to study design principles and user experience (UX). Far too often IT pros fail to grasp and/or appreciate how the technology on which they are working impacts the end user. [...]
Tags: Design, IT, recruiting
I thought I’d write another short post on my view of Adobe Flash, and why I think there is such a negative reaction to it. We went through a bit of a war over Adobe Flash when the iPhone was originally announced, and I think we’re going through one again, only this time the technology [...]
Tags: Adobe, Adobe Flash, Flash, Games, HTML5, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Movie Players, Music Streaming, Photos
I’ve seen a number of folks excited about the possibility of getting Windows 7 on a tablet device, whether it be through Citrix on the iPad or natively on a PC tablet such as the ExoPC. I personally have no such desire. Windows 7 simply wasn’t designed for the sole purpose of touchscreen computing. The [...]
I thought I’d write a quick post in response to the posts by John Nack, Product Manager at Adobe, and The Flash Blog regarding the lack of Flash on the iPad (and iPhone). You can find their respective posts here and here. First, in response to John Nack, who makes the point that Flash has [...]
Tags: Adobe, death, Flash, HTML5, iPad, iPhone OS, John Nack, standards, The Flash Blog