PCMag: Apple iPad video review from PCMag.com Reviews on Vimeo.
PCMag’s Tim Gideon takes an in-depth look at Apple’s first tablet, the iPad, prior to the April 3rd launch. Check out iWork, Maps, iBooks, and other apps and read the full review at www.pcmag.com
Work Smart: How to Make Procrastination Productive
From Fastcompany.com
Here’s another interesting video. If you are in any way involved with website design, development, or management, you spend a lot of time looking at other successful websites in an attempt to discover what works well. During this process you’ll often contemplate what drove certain decisions. Therefore it’s very intriguing when you get a chance to hear an actual Q&A about such topics. So, check out this press demo from Facebook:
Found via: Mashable
Despite the various “glaring omissions” that have been well debated in the past week, I agree that the iPad will be a success. It may not fully blossom, past the early adopters, until a v1.5 or v2, but it’s going to be very popular. As a UI designer I want one to develop for, as a consumer I want one because it looks so fun to play with. Anyhow, this Charlie Rose segment (presented in iPad-reistant Flash) sums things up well:
Found via: TechCrunch
trendwatching.com has released their latest report. Here’s a quick summary of the 10 trends:
Trend Predictions in 140 Characters
Check out this Presentation by my colleague, author & designer Theresa Neil. This was from her presentation at Øredev on 11/3/09. It includes many examples, resource links and videos too…
Dang, it has been months since I’ve had a chance to add to the blog here. I enjoyed this video interview and thought I’d share it. Digg Founder Kevin Rose asks users’ top questions to skateboarding legend Tony Hawk…
Below is a quick comparison of two browser testing tools. There are others out there, feel free to add in comments. However, since Adobe just made another press push for BrowserLab I thought it would be a good time to compare these two tools that I’ve been trying out.
Litmus
Litmus is out of the UK, and has been around in some capacity since 2005. They currently offer both an HTML-based web application, as well as a nascent desktop application counterpart.
Browsers supported at this time:
Stand out features:
Adobe® BrowserLab
Adobe BrowserLab is in a limited time preview stage, this Flash-in-browser-based tool covers the website basics that Litmus does and has a few slick features. One immediate ‘weakness’ in comparison is that at the moment you can only run one test at a time and there is no apparent way to access test history.
Browsers supported at this time:
Stand out features:
Verdict
IMO, Litmus offers a broader more user-friendly set of features for testing multiple sites in an iterative fashion. It’s huge browser library and additional support for testing HTML Email give it a clear edge. Adobe may be able to catch up of course, but I also feel that it will ultimately come down to pricing. Both offer free options, but at the moment Adobe allows you to test IE 6 for free, whereas Litmus requires a paid plan to gain access to anything but IE 7 and Firefox 2.0. Adobe has not set pricing, but has stated that it will become a paid service after it moves out of preview release. We’ll have to see how the pricing packages compare. For the time being, you could benefit by using both in tandem, which I’ll likely do for a while until I feel there’s reason not to. No matter what, the advent of powerful browser-based browser testing tools is a huge time, money, and headache saver for website builders concerned with providing the best user experience possible across a large spectrum of web clients.
ArtBistro.com: “Which cities offer the most overall value in 2009? While all of these communities have a healthy art and design community the emphasis on this list is the cost of living…”
Below is a quick summary. Read the full article here to get all the details:
