For the first time ever, the iPad gives developers the chance to design desktop-class applications for a multi-touch based user interface.
Here are 3 Mac applications with user interfaces that I think would work really well on the iPad:
1. Times
This fantastic RSS reader is already multi-touch aware and is a dream to use on MacBooks with [...]
Sebastiaan de With has posted a very comprehensive analysis of some of the new UI elements introduced on the iPad:
As usual with a large Apple product launch, I’ve written up this post to round up the good, the bad, and the ugly of all the new interface and interaction designs that were set [...]
iTunes made it easy for everyone and their mother to finally join the digital music revolution. Ripping music CDs is straightforward and fairly easy to do, as is buying music via the iTunes Store.
But I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve showed friends and relatives how to import their audiobook / spoken word CDs [...]
Designreviver has a nice list of 20 Beautiful Mac apps that is worth checking out. There are only a few picks I disagree with:
Pixelmator’s black icons on a HUD window background have always bothered me and seem like a bad UI choice
iStatmenus is pretty, but never feels very Mac-like
TuneUp is the antithesis of a beautiful [...]
Enough has been said about Tweetie for Mac, so I’m just going to link to it, in case you’ve been living under a rock and have missed it.
Bottom line is: The UI is fantastic, support for dragged in images is great and I believe it sets the bar a little higher for UI design on [...]
Good artists copy, great artists steal.
We all know that Apple sets the bar for UI design in its own applications and most 3rd party apps try to follow Apple’s lead. That makes it all the more interesting to see Apple “borrowing” design cue’s from 3rd party developers.
I’ve gone back and forth between using Spotlight or using a 3rd party tool (I’ve given up on Quicksilver, but I have high hopes for Google’s Quick Search Box by the same developer) might be to quickly access apps and files. I’d prefer to use a built-in tool to be honest, but Spotlight never [...]
Well, Chrome is here and so far I’m pretty impressed. Although currently only available for Windows (you can’t actually download the Windows version if your browser identifies you as a Mac user – I had to select a Windows user agent for the download page to let me download it) it’s quite snappy, even running [...]
OpenID seems like a nice idea to simplify logins and profiles on the web. The promise: Create an account with one OpenID-enabled service such as Yahoo, Wordpress or others and then you’ll be able to sign in to other OpenID-enabled services.
The reality? OpenID still has some way to go before really becoming seamless enough for [...]
Yup – the dark side has got me – I’ve installed Windows Vista.
But don’t worry: it’s only replaced my somewhat older XP installation temporarily as part of an assignment for University. And luckily I didn’t need to purchase a license either – Microsoft allows students in my course to apply for free Academic licenses.
So that’s [...]
OS X is a great OS for “newcomers” and “power users” alike. Almost inevitably it’s OS X’s user-friendliness that (deservedly) gets most the attention – printers just work, BSOD-style crashes are (almost) unheard of and drivers are such a non-issue, they’re practically invisible (they either just work, or they don’t).
But instead of focusing on the [...]
Is it just me, or is the button that adds an RSS feed to your Inbox in Mail.app really perplexing at first?
I’d prefer not to have my feeds show up in my inbox as I try to keep the inbox as empty as possible. Instead I just browse the feeds occasionally for interesting articles or [...]
iCal has been my calendar application of choice for over 3 years now. I consider myself a casual calendar user: I don’t have that many entries, but I use iCal to keep track of exams, upcoming concerts, events, birthdays etc.
I think calendar apps have 2 common usage scenarios:
Casual
Users want a simple visual overview of the [...]
