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If your web server can detect a mobile browser and redirect from regular to mobile-optimized URL, it should be able to do the opposite.
Chairman Gruber, who follows up with this:
(And of course, better still would be for one URL to work across all browsers, mobile or not.)
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➶ Rapid DHCP: Or, how do Macs get on the network so fast?
Lots of technical information, but fascinating nonetheless.
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➶ The fall and rise of User Experience
A great transcript of Cennydd Bowles’ IA Summit Keynote.
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➶ Kyle Neath on URL Design
A tonne of great points. Even if you’re not developing a web-app (and thus giving URL design a great deal of thought) some simple re-directs to help point visitors to an appropriate page make life so much easier1.
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I sure wish all companies either used or re-directed /pr and /contact to an applicable page. ↩
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➶ "Designed by Apple in California"
37signals on the appeal of the ubiquitous Apple packaging phrase.
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A bigger feature list does not constitute leap-frogging, no matter how much bravado you project in your terrible commercials. Any idiot can throw features into a box and call it better. Actually producing something useful is significantly harder.
Mike Lee on the recent Android hysteria. Be sure to read it all. -
Like many geeky folks, Christmas is a time where I play sys-admin for a few days and ensure that family computers and the like are up to date. I’ve spent a fair bit of time looking at Software Update screens over the last few days - from Macs to Wiis, Xboxes to PS3s. This screen is from the PS3 update system, and annoys the hell out of me.
The wording of the error message implies that update data was found. But it’s totally ambiguous as to whether there’s actually an update available. Hell, the message seems more self-congratulatory to the Sony engineers that the system actually connected to the Internet and found update data than providing any meaningful information to the end user.
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➶ How Mailchimp turned to Mechanical Turk for their User Research
Some interesting notes on using Mechanical Turk for User Research, via Harry Brignull
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Usability: a chocolate bar that you can cram in your mouth in one go. User experience: “only the crumbliest, flakiest chocolate.
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➶ Justin Williams on iPhone UX Anti-Patterns
Following on from my earlier post, Justin Williams makes some great points about gesture hijacking:
The biggest thing I took away from just the PDF (this should be a session at WWDC) is the gesture hijacking that I’m seeing more and more applications do. Tweetie is a prime example and while I love the quick access, I do often find myself accidently misfiring the gesture just when I’m scrolling a list of tweets.
In the area I am about to release an iPhone application, I’ve noticed many of the other applications on the market are using similar gesture-based shortcuts, which I’m inclined to resist in my application because I don’t think a saved tap is worth the extra learning curve for a novice user.
For yet-to-be-disclosed reasons of my own, the discussion of gesture hijacking is particularly pertinent. I’ll admit I love the swiping in Tweetie, but in my own project I’m still not happy with the idea of a swipe to quickly reveal a function that isn’t delete - though it’s perhaps just the need for the right graphics to show the ‘shortcuts’.
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