October 14th, 2009, 2 Comments
Trending Topics on Twitter hit within minutes after this announcement, which massively flood my feed with RTs and other expressions of excitement, rocking Top Paid Apps in U.S. AppStore after about a day, thousands of congratulations and praises…
No other app may brag about stats like Tweetie 2, that’s for sure. But was all the buzz adequante to app’s quality? Or again, did we happen to be victims of a huge hype? Well, let’s try to answer that.
Here’s a review of Tweetie 2, an app that managed the impossible – beated its perfect archer.
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August 9th, 2009, 1 Comment
Post contains not only my opinions about the topic, but also features few sentences from great UI designer – Tim Van Damme.
Simplicity. A one, little word that is lately becoming a most important one among user interface designers. Less is more. Simple interfaces are attracting users, that’s undeniable.
What is the problem, is achieving this simplicity. Is cutting amount of features a right, and the only one solution? Isn’t there some golden mean, between app overhelmed with features and just too simple, or does it has to be our choice?
These are all tough questions. Personally, I think simple interfaces are so much more attractive for a potential user, more pleasant to use and they almost always do things they do good. Because, as they say, when something does everything, it actually does nothing.
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August 5th, 2009, No Comments
Time for us to play with this technology. We’ve created a litttle experiment which loads 100 tweets related to HTML5 and displays them using a javascript-based particle engine. Each particle represents a tweet – click on one of them and it’ll appear on the screen.
Beautifully created. Seriously, what remains are there still for Flash? We got native video tag, audio tag and now also awesome animations thanks to canvas magic combined with JS. You might see the effect above, and it’s mindblowing.
BURN IN HELL, FLASH. You’ve been an evil technology, now get the hell out of our lives. And sorry, but you won’t be missed.