September 2011
4 posts
Great Developers Steal Ideas, Not Products
Over the past few months, I’ve been thinking a lot about intellectual property and the underlying moral and legal issues. In blogging and tweeting about these thoughts, I’ve tended to use the word “borrow”, but at times I’ve used the word “steal” to assert the implicit moral judgment.
As I thought more about and researched these ideas today, I came across this excerpt of an...
On User Interface Chrome
While watching Microsoft’s overview of Metro, its new user interface paradigm, it struck me as somewhat odd how much emphasis was placed on the removal and abstraction of user interface chrome.
Though we act directly on many objects in our day to day existence, many of those objects are themselves tools for acting on other objects. We are, in fact, completely surrounded by object interface...
The El Camino of Computing
I have to admit I was rather charmed watching a demo of Microsoft’s Windows 8 tablet. I bounce back and forth between my iPad and MacBook Pro quite often during the day, so merging the two into a single device looked appealing. After a few minutes daydreaming about the unification of iOS and OSX, it struck me that I don’t want an El Camino.
My wife, Liz, and I share a 2001 Honda Accord for a...
App Producer
Upon making an acquaintance…
HIM: So, what do you do? ME: I develop software. HIM: Software? ME: iPhone apps. HIM: Oh! I’ve got this great idea… ME: [listens patiently] HIM: So, you’re a programmer? ME: No. THEM: So, you’re a designer? ME: No. THEM: What do you do then? ME: A lot, actually.
It’s difficult to succinctly communicate what it is I do, I...