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Tech trends shaping habits and social interaction

November 29th, 2009

Two kinds of technologies have in recent months changed my daily habits and how I interact with people: web-based apps and smartphones.
Let’s start with web-based apps. For email I’ve been using Gmail for over three years now and is in my opinion the best email app around, web-based or desktop-based. For keeping track of appointments [...]

New Xbox Experience (NXE) interface

November 25th, 2008

Three years after the Xbox 360’s release comes a new version of the Xbox… software. In a similar move to the Zune, Microsoft has decided to focus on software upgrades for improving their current hardware. While some would say the new interface overhaul was unecessary, after actually using it for a while, besides being prettier, it starts [...]

Quick Review: Sam and Max, video game or interactive tv show?

June 30th, 2008

Sam and Max is a video game series that originally started back in 1993. It made a comeback a couple of years ago in the form of episodic gaming, releasing one ‘episode’ each month for a ’season’ of six episodes. It’s sorta like a tv show where each episode can be played on its own, [...]

Multi touch computing is here

June 7th, 2007

Multi-touch computing has been a technology in the works for a while, with a few different companies rushing to make it first to market with a product. Its no surprise that the first to get there is Microsoft with their Surface. They’ve been a head of the game with (single) touch screen tablet PCs for [...]

Why interface design?

November 20th, 2005

I’ve always worked with more than one area involved in designing/developing a website. My main focus, however, has always been on the initial design of the website. It’s what I consider the most crutial part of the process.
The design defines how the product or service is viewed on an emotional level. The [...]