Android Market Finally Shows Updates To Your Apps
Until now (which is a while) you haven’t had any easy way to find updates to apps you’ve installed on your Android phone. You had to enter the market and search for a particular app to see if an update was available. Since just a few days ago, you can now simply click the “Downloads” [...]
A Few Notes On Google Android And “Multitouch”
The word “multitouch” is thrown around a lot these days. Mostly by people who should know better.
Multitouch means you can touch the screen with multiple fingers, and the system will register this as, yes, multiple fingers. Google Android does support this, has supported this for a while, and most Android phones have the hardware that [...]
Why The Fading Google Homepage Is Really Bad For Usability
Google.com. Everyones favourite webpage, whether they know it or not. Visited by more people per second than Chuck Norris can count (and he’s counted to infinity, twice, so). And now, since recently, “clutter” is hidden altogether until you move the mouse, after which a header and a footer fades in.
Fading out clutter is not the [...]
Firefox 4 Theme Mockups
In case you haven’t seen it yet, Stephen Horlander — one of the interface designers for Mozilla — has put up a bunch of really interesting and lovely design mockups for Firefox 4, due late this year. I think I like the app button.
Quick Thoughts On Googles Just-Launched Chrome Extensions Gallery
Google is clearly working the midnight oil trying to get Chrome extensions up and running for Add-On-Con next week. They’ve just launched both Chrome beta for Linux and the official extensions gallery:
While extensions aren’t yet available for the Mac, I would assume an extensions-capable beta is what’s next on the menu.
Some thoughts:
Nice and simple design, [...]
Quick Thoughts On Googles 2009 Visual Refresh
For a long time, Google have been proponents of what’s been called “non-design” — a non-design which still involves testing 41 different shades of blue. Nonetheless, the result is three flagship products — Gmail, Calendar and Google — that are supremely accessible. These days, however, Google is experimenting with a visual refresh1. While messing with [...]
Twitters New Retweets
The dear Jon Hicks was nice enough to demo the new Twitter “retweets” feature. I, for one, love this redesign: it keeps messages ungarbled, it’s easily filterable and it encourages exploration.
Quick Thoughts On The Beta Of Wikipedias New Design
Wikipedia, the best thing to happen to the web since Al Gore, is redesigning. Not radically, just a little itsy bit. You can log in and click “Try Beta”, or view a screenshot here below:
The design is quite like the old one, but with a few changes:
The twirlie background (it’s actually a picture of pages [...]