Catégorie : User Interface Design

I did it again…

I bought the new iPhone 3G S today. On launch day. I know… I skipped the iPhone 3G, so the feature-gap with my G1 iPhone made the upgrade worth it. The Geekette, bless her geeky soul, encouraged me to go for it (she should be getting the old iPhone, which is better than her old…

iPhone 3.0 Killer Feature

I installed iPhone OS 3.0 a little ahead of schedule (ahem) on my 1st generation iPhone 2G. I can’t comment on the features that will only work on the iPhone 3G S (yet), but as for the rest, I have to say that for me, the feature that stands out was somewhat unexpected: search. You see,…

Geeks In Love: Episode 97. Perspective.

Germany is known for its quality design and signage, and rightly so. France? Not so much (as anybody who’s landed at Charles De Gaulle airport will tell you). Still, the baffling public transportation ticket vending machines in Cologne, Germany, that the Geeks are confronted with this week, stand in stark contrast to the Paris Metro…

Logorrhea

This post has been brewing for a while… It’s about a logo. SFR is the second-largest mobile phone carrier in France. They have stores everywhere, they advertise like crazy, and they are folding other brands under the SFR banner. Which is probably why they decided to redesign their logo. The decision was probably long overdue.…

Geeks In Love: Redecorating

When I designed the Geeks In Love site, I originally chose to go with a cold, techy design (a variation on the standard WordPress « Kubrick » design, appropriately enough), because I thought the contrast with the sloppy brushwork might be amusing. But it didn’t take very long for me to become unhappy with it. It did…

Misunderstood

I’ve spoken at length on this blog about how my music tends to find a small core of enthusiastic fans, and irk a majority of others (and how these numbers seem to vary widely depending on geography). Despite the fact that I don’t create super-weird avant-garde musique concrète, I’ve proposed some hypotheses to explain this…

Universal Usability Nightmare

Since I’m on a curmudgeonly streak, I thought I’d publish, once and for all and for posterity, my feelings about automobiles. First, a little history. As a child, I used to systematically puke in them. When I began to look at the world with a critical eye, I quickly came to feel that cars were…