There’s a lot of value in learning from an expert. Experts tend to understand a topic very well, and (hopefully) have a great deal of experience putting the knowledge into practice. I find experts very helpful when I’m learning something for the first time. Learning from an expert is like …
After talking to Steven Hoober, the author of Designing Mobile Interfaces: Patterns for Interaction Design (O’Reilly, November 2011) at a Guild conference last year, I realized something truly unsettling: We are designing for tablets but we really didn’t know how people are using them. “Uh, isn’t that a bit of …
I remember having a fairly passionate discussion with some industry peers around the question “What qualifies as a mobile device?”. While everyone agreed that a smart phone was a mobile device, the level of agreement started to drop as the conversation started to spread to other technologies. Some didn’t think …