Posts Tagged ‘Multi-Touch’

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Instagram

For the past week or so, I’ve been sharing photos and tapping my way around this new iPhone app called Instagram. It lets you take photos in a square Polaroid format and pass them through a series of throwback filters before sharing. To me, where it stands apart is on the social side of things. Being able to comment, like and even just see the photos your friends... Read more →

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Non Hover

“Elements that rely only on mousemove, mouseover, mouseout or the CSS pseudo-class :hover may not always behave as expected on a touch-screen device such as iPad or iPhone.” A few days after Steve Jobs announced the release of the iPad, I read that in Apple’s Reference Library: Preparing Your Web Content for iPad, and started to realize the drastic implications the evolution of multi-touch would have on interaction design.... Read more →

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Trimming The Fat

The last version of this site lasted just under a year. That may seem like a short amount of time until you consider how quickly things change on the web. @font-face usage has been fortified by services like Typekit & Fontdeck, CSS3 & HTML5 are popping up everywhere, and with the release of the iPad, multi-touch technology is drastically changing web design.  My goal has been to cut out... Read more →

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iPad Wallpaper: Touch It

If you’re worried about what might happen to your precious new iPad whilst passing it around so that friends and loved ones can take it for a test drive, let me commend to you this Phil Dunphy-inspired iPad wallpaper. This quote, taken from a recent episode of Modern Family when Phil gets an iPad for his birthday will provide a gentle reminder for everyone to “Touch it, but... Read more →

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Mimeo and the Kleptopus King

Recently, via Dribbble, I’ve had the privilege of seeing some of the progress Shaun Inman has made on his latest project, Mimeoverse: Mimeo and the Kleptopus King. It’s an iPad, iPhone & iPod Touch game where you collect power-ups that upscale the character as well as the bit resolution of the game world itself. From story writing and musical composition to pixel art, I’m amazed at the wide... Read more →

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Multi-Touch

Multi-touch will change everything For years, web designers have been working within a firmly established jig. Books have been published, studies have been conducted and businesses have been built on a handful of fundamental interface design principles. Many of these rules have been written based on the understanding that a mouse will be serving as the primary tool in carrying out the user’s will. What happens if this... Read more →

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