The new Samsung Galaxy S4 has some nice features: Hover state. This is made possible through the phone recognizing the proximity of your finger towards the screen surface. This is not new, Sony’s Xperia Sola introduced this technology last summer already...
Besides the big release of Microsoft Windows 8 OS , another potential hit at the beginning of 2013 must be BlackBerry 10 . With glimpses at some of their key features from developer previews, I've tried to compare it with Blackberry’s current...
AVG is an anti-virus software. In anticipation of the upcoming Windows 8, they’ve just modernized their UI to look like Windows 8 style UI – what was formerly known as Metro. It used to look like this: Now it looks like this: Typical Windows 8 style characteristics...
I found this article in the New York Times that highlights the detrimental effect of bad user interfaces on the user experience and as a consequence on the rating of Ford. Executive summary: • In the J.D. Power & Associates Initial Quality Study...
Metro applications have an innovative new interface and a component-based architecture. Many developers created components for XAML-related technologies like Silverlight / WPF and developers of jQuery components they would like to create WinRT controls...
When developing applications for Window Phone 7 is essential to realize the simulation of the Multi-Touch Activity for the applications. Currently, most computers do not have Multi-Touch Screens. One very easy option is support for multiple mice. For...
A few weeks ago Dr. Dobbs published a pretty lengthy (and informative) article of mine titled “Designing for Multi-Touch, Multi-User, and Gesture-Based Systems.” In my opinion, it’s very easy to get caught up in new technologies, new...
