Love the playful interaction designed in this simple score keeping app. Looking forward to just using this!
Note to self: It’s not just about the solving a problem, but how you solve the problem.
Scorekeeper: Things that make people happy!
Mobile Web vs Native Apps
I was invited to speak at the ClickAsiaMasterClass today here in Singapore on the topic, “Mobile Web vs Native Apps”. There are qualified and obvious cases where native apps provide a means for a better product. Although, being an active lobbyist for open web standards, it comes easy for me to see when the open web trumps over proprietary platforms.
That being said, I am all game for the innovation that happens on new platforms. Don’t let standards stop you from innovating. Do keep in mind that you should be building for the user and not a platform.
It’s ironical, but easy to see that, the app wars are becoming the new browser wars.
You can download my slides here
Mutewatch: a new take on minimal wrist watches
For some time now I have been sketching clocks & watches in order to come up with something thats minimalistic & functional. While I’m still working on it, the Mutewatch caught my attention and really appealed to me.
What I really like is how these guys have made sure they keep the touch interface easy to navigate with fingers by not crowding it and keeping the “hit area” big enough.
Someone gave me a demo of the Mutewatch at a conference last month and it was really as impressive as the video claims. Although at $299 I can’t really justify buying it to try it out, so I’m gonna stick to my Mondaine for now.
Product Design – Mobile Apps
If you have never been to Vietnam, I have a few tips for you from my first ever trip there (to Saigon):
- When paying, count your zeros
- When counting your zeros, decimal comma is not the same as decimal point
- Don’t leave your $30 t-shirt in your $15 a night hotel room
- Ice in beer can prevent hangovers
- Saigon Red beer is better than Saigon Green
I was in Saigon, Vietnam over the weekend for BarcampSaigon and I really liked it. Loved the food, the people, the weather & the barcamp. At the Barcamp, I spoke about my workflow for designing products – mobile apps to be specific. I’ve uploaded the slides from the talk for download here
Other links from my talks:
- Wireframing tools – Prototyping iPhone apps with Keynote & Kodak Picture kiosks
- Street photography – http://flickr.com/djnavv
- Writing a CV in HTML
- An awesome CV example
I’ll be going back to Vietnam in a month, this time to Hanoi – hoping it’s as good as Saigon.
