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New Yorkers Aren't Rude. You Are.
And I mean that title with the utmost of respect.
I’ve been a denizen of this fair[ly crappy] city my entire life, in one way or another. I spent some time in LA during college, but don’t worry, I got over it. The one thing, though, that I’ve consistently heard from around the US is that New York is a rude city.
This is, I feel, based on a fundamental misunderstanding of what this place is.
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hello, hello…
well, summer is almost over, and school is less than a week from resuming, so i thought i'd try to get mack in the habit of posting here.
for those who missed me yet haven't been paying attention to my Facebook, twitter, or google+ feeds, my summer has been slow and quiet. after busting my ass for the spring semester, i just wanted to kick back, relax, and enjoy my summer. i got a few small gigs, but mostly just spent my time watching star trek tng blu-rays and getting intoxicated.
one interesting thing, though: i've begun to cook. i have always hated doing it, and with relative inexperience, it was normally a very unpleasant endeavor. but, thanks to not being able to afford take-out every day, i had to learn. thanks to my mom for a couple of tips and recipes, i'm doing quite well.
anyway, i'll be posting more regularly, especially starting on 8.26, when i resume classes.
cheers ツ
final storyboard for les app demo video
script for les app demo vid
LES by Locals App demo video (by Adam McBride)
App Review - Week 11: Facebook [iOS]
Note: This is more of an update to a previous post where I reviewed the Facebook App for iPad.
Chat Heads
I'm very glad for this little innovation. For reasons beyond my understanding, it took Facebook far too long to renovate its chat interface within its iOS app. I had always thought that it could be done very simply if they followed Google's example with the G+ app, but whatever.
Instead, it seems, they've been working on this other idea of managing chat windows: Chat Heads. Now, every time you have a chat going with someone, a thumbnail of their profile photo will float in a little circle as a tab representing that chat. Additional chats will produce additional thumbnails representing them. When not in use, the chat windows collapse into a pile of profile thumbnail images in the corner of the screen. To close individual chats, just drag the Chat Head to the bottom-center of the screen, and it vanishes. to close all chat windows, drag the stack of Chat Heads to the bottom-center of the screen.
This new chat management system is innovative, but it seems needlessly complicated. I kinda like it, though.
App Review - Week 11: Etsy [iPad]
Honestly, I don't do a lot of shopping online for too much. Groceries, electronics, stuff like that. Some stuff, however, i would really rather hold or touch before buying. As a result, online retailers like Amazon have regularly proved only moderately useful to me. On top of that, the entire experience is very impersonal. I feel how far away I am from the products I'm looking at, and they don't seem very attractive that way. Plus the site and the app are both ugly and complicated.
This is what I like about the Esty Store app: instead, i get a smooth, warm, well-designed interface that allows me to browse products with ease, whether by category, product, price range, or individual store. I can even see what my Facebook friends and address book contacts have been up to if I like. And what if i have my own Etsy Store? Easy! That can be managed from the app as well.
Overall, this app provides a great way to access not only the well-designed and friendly Etsy Store, but with features that are built natively on the iOS platform instead of being limited to a web-delivered app.
App Review - Week 11: Yahoo Weather [iPhone]
I kind of have a thing for weather apps, especially pretty ones. Let's face it: most weather apps are the same: they organize the weather into some sort of table with forecasts for the next few days. Blah!
This app does it a little differently. Sure, it displays the pertinent info, but it does so with a feed of background images from Flicker, representing both your location, time of day, and weather. Frankly, it's beautiful. A finger flick up brings more information in a white/transparent background, allowing for the image to come through, although slightly blurred to help legibility.
The fact that the individual info panels can be re-ordered by dragging-and-dropping, this free, lovely, light app from Yahoo! is defiantly my new weather app!
ok, so as i promised in class, here is a link to the graphical assets i used to create my prototype in keynote. they're in a shared folder on gdrive, and should be accessible without logging in.
the folder contains zip files with the following:
hi-fi iphone elements in a keynote template
low-fi interface elements from multiple operating systems in a keynote template
2 pads, one with guy elements for the iphone 4/4s and one for the 5/retina
one last file with social media buttons in a psd
if there's anything else you might want or if you have any trouble, let me know!
App Review - Week 8: Tumblr [iPad]
When I saw an official Tumblr app, I had hoped it would make my experience posting on the blogging service easy, or, at least, a convenient alternative to the web interface. It would be great to be able to make all my posts from one app, without having to worry about using a web interface. I was wrong. While this app allows you to access your account to view and post, your abilities are decidedly limited. First of all, the post types are strictly limited to only that media type. Fr those of us who like to embed photos into our posts, it's simply not possible unless you manually write it in in HTML. The interface is organized terribly, with main locations (such as my own blog!) hidden in a sub-menu, for example. I have to say, this app was a real let-down. Now, I just use the web interface instead.
App Review - Week 8: Repix [iPad]
This is a fun little app for playing around with photos, much like the many others. Unlike the others, it focuses on the application of pre-packaged effects through touch, rather than globally applying the effect to the entire image. Images are imported via the Camera or Camera Roll and can be easily manipulate. This app also has tools to adjust brightness, contrast, saturation, etc. good for a bit of fun, but not a professional app.
App Review - Week 8: Galaxy on Fire II HD [iPad]
Now, I know that I already reviewed this app a few weeks ago, but an HD version just came out, and I've got a gripe. I paid for all of the expansion packs for the game (non HD). I expected to be able to transfer them to the new HD version -- after all, it's the same game, just better graphics. There's even a 'Restore Purchases' button, but when I tried it, my purchases were not restored. Apparently, I need to repurchase these expansion packs all over again. As you can imagine, I'm not very happy about this. The game is the same in every way other than the "HD" moniker and Retina graphics. So, the reason I've written about this is to point out that even awesome game makers do crappy things...
Here are the notes from our first round of user testing.
UI Sketches for LES App
Here is a Google Drive link to our product statement for our LES App.
dft: app review 12: Galaxy on Fire II [iPad]
Galaxy of Fire II, the sequel to the ever-popular Galaxy of Fire, is a space flight sim game in which you play a mercenary fighter pilot/smuggler caught up in intergalactic politics, wars, and the development of secret technologies and weapons. You, the player, are taken through several story lines in which you have to recover artifacts, combat enemy fighters, and destroy space stations to preserve the galaxy.
The app features a simple and well-designed interface, fitting an open-world universe full of all manner of ships, people, weapons, and technology, side-jobs, upgrades, an in-universe economy, and fun, funny, engaging characters. A fun and immersive game, expect to lose hours of your our day on this addictive game!
