petersteinberger.com » Design http://petersteinberger.com bits about life, coding and stuff Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:41:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 10/GUI http://petersteinberger.com/2010/09/10gui/ http://petersteinberger.com/2010/09/10gui/#comments Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:58:14 +0000 studpete http://petersteinberger.com/?p=996
  • How the iPhone influences user interface design
    • ]]>     The new Tweetie for iPad is truly inspired by the ideas of the 10/GUI project. I like both of them a lot. DDR-Tetris can’t be the future. This maybe is. And i’m sure we’ll see some bland of this in Mac OS 10.7…

    10/GUI from C. Miller on Vimeo.

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    ]]>     http://petersteinberger.com/2010/09/10gui/feed/ 0     CSS + awesomeness = less code = Less.js http://petersteinberger.com/2010/06/css-awesomeness-less-code-less-js/ http://petersteinberger.com/2010/06/css-awesomeness-less-code-less-js/#comments Sun, 20 Jun 2010 15:15:03 +0000 studpete http://petersteinberger.com/?p=904
  • Fiddling with Reachability code?
    • ]]>     Already used LESS with Ruby, I’m more than happy to read that there’s now a Less.js implementation. That’s right, pure JavaScript! Also uses clever caching on modern browsers; and is even fast on our ugly older friends (like IE7 – nobody cares about IE6 any more!)

    LESS is CSS with variables, mixins – in short, CSS with less code and all the fun! Go check it out!

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    ]]>     http://petersteinberger.com/2010/06/css-awesomeness-less-code-less-js/feed/ 0     Little trip in the time machine http://petersteinberger.com/2010/04/little-trip-in-the-time-machine/ http://petersteinberger.com/2010/04/little-trip-in-the-time-machine/#comments Sat, 24 Apr 2010 14:51:50 +0000 studpete http://petersteinberger.com/?p=834
  • Global git ignore files
  • Unicode
  • Enable Clang in XCode
    • ]]>     Found a piece thats really worth sharing. Too bad that I’m too young to actually know the Newton.

    1998: A revolutionary, lovable Apple PDA with little squareish icons, on-screen keyboard, common icons across the bottom, single-tasking, and the best compact keyboard of the decade, complete with an ungainly but functional fold-out case. The Newton.

    2010: A revolutionary, lovable Apple PDA with little squareish icons, on-screen keyboard, common icons across the bottom, single-tasking, and the best compact keyboard of the decade, complete with an ungainly but functional fold-out case. The iPad.

    Read the complete article on cheerful.

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    ]]>     http://petersteinberger.com/2010/04/little-trip-in-the-time-machine/feed/ 2     “On Android, it’s fucking hell” http://petersteinberger.com/2010/03/on-android-its-fucking-hell/ http://petersteinberger.com/2010/03/on-android-its-fucking-hell/#comments Sat, 27 Mar 2010 00:20:28 +0000 studpete http://petersteinberger.com/?p=739
  • Version Adoption Rate: iPhone vs Android
  • Going Android for two Weeks
    • ]]>

    Designing views in the Android SDK is one of the areas that I can say without equivocation is worse than the iPhone in every single respect. Android’s approach to creating views has absolutely no redeeming value whatsoever. Designing your interface on the iPhone is easy. It’s fun. It’s intuitive. On Android, it’s fucking hell. It’s like working with the evil offspring of GridBagLayout and XML. It’s utterly horrid. But, Java has never done UI well and has never made it particularly fun so I can’t say I was surprised by this, though it did exceed my expectations by being even worse than I thought humanly possible. The whole process is counter-intuitive and time-consuming, and that’s just to make something that functions. It’s even more time-consuming and painful to make a UI that doesn’t look like ass.

    Jeff, I so understand you. And the experience you describe transforms 1:1 to the interfaces you can see on Android today. Most of them just suck. This may change over time (i’m sure it will!) but Google has no particularly good history of interface design.

    Read the full article here.

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    ]]>     http://petersteinberger.com/2010/03/on-android-its-fucking-hell/feed/ 1     “it’s the whole point” http://petersteinberger.com/2010/03/its-the-whole-point/ http://petersteinberger.com/2010/03/its-the-whole-point/#comments Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:20:48 +0000 studpete http://petersteinberger.com/?p=665

    “superior UX” is not a bulletpoint. It’s not a tradeoff that can be made. It’s the whole point. (via @atebits)

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  • Fix Home/End on Terminal.app in Leopard/Snow Leopard
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    Dear Microsoft,

    Why are there two stop buttons for one progress, and why are they both disabled?
    Why don’t you do it just like copy and make a little (X) at the end?

    WHY THE HELL does this dialog pop up out of nowhere on my screen?

    Why is the progress cycler not aligned and the “Now updating” so close to the border?

    Sorry. Had to be. MS Entourage just sucks so much. Worst piece of shit i need to use. Hell, it can’t send emails anyway in my office setup, but after entering my passwords two times it can read mails. sometimes. when the little progress window shows up.

    God, I can’t wait going solo :D

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    ]]>     http://petersteinberger.com/2010/02/worst-progress-dialog-ever/feed/ 0     Don’t make the Demo look Done http://petersteinberger.com/2009/11/dont-make-the-demo-look-done/ http://petersteinberger.com/2009/11/dont-make-the-demo-look-done/#comments Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:12:36 +0000 studpete http://petersteinberger.com/?p=487
  • “On Android, it’s fucking hell”
    • ]]>     Great Article about creating expectations for your customer boss.

    The GUI is once more the most critical part. Don’t make your app look to finished when it’s not.

    Furthermore, the better it looks, the more narrow the feedback:

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    ]]>     http://petersteinberger.com/2009/11/dont-make-the-demo-look-done/feed/ 0     How the iPhone influences user interface design http://petersteinberger.com/2009/04/how-the-iphone-influences-user-interface-design/ http://petersteinberger.com/2009/04/how-the-iphone-influences-user-interface-design/#comments Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:32:03 +0000 admin http://www.petersteinberger.com/?p=30 Just look at tweetie and see for yourself…

    damn: i like it!

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    http://www.chromeexperiments.com/

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