Technology
Letâs play Devilâs Advocate a minute. Google has said it will âstop showing authorship in search results.â [https://plus.google.com/u/0/+JohnMueller/posts/HZf3KDP1Dm8]. It has not said that it will stop using what it has learned about authorship to impact rankings. Over the past few
Pebble
A few thoughts, in no particular order. * Forget âsmartwatchâ, Pebble is better described as a HUD on your wrist. You can ignore your phone, not worry about missing anything, not have to keep flicking the screen on in case youâve got notifications. You can just get on with things
My thoughts on Econsultancy: > Furthermore, because Twitter Cards can be based on existing metadata of websites, they can be simply generated at scale. For example, Amazon can immediately translate any product listing into an accompanying Card. At that stage, whatâs to stop you making a page of the
Technology
By me at Wired: > The idea would take a key element of Appleâs heritage and sidestep the assumption that a wearable device has to rely on your sense of sight or touch. Apple has an opportunity to recall one of the strongest motifs of its iPod days and
iphone
Not interesting: * colours * cheap vs expensive * âflatâ design/ transparency/ parallax effects * 64 bit processor Interesting: TouchID + Bluetooth Low Energy (iBeacons [http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/11/4718082/ios-7-ibeacons-could-solve-indoor-mapping-make-shopping-better] ) Apple just put a method in your pocket to verify your identity instantly with any device it can connect to through
Evernote
I like Evernote. But thereâs only so far I think you can really love software. By contrast, my notebook is like a trusty familiar idea-steed. Yes, Idea-steed. From the ceremony of pinging away the elastic to leafing open a page, It even makes me love my favourite pen more
New Gmail got me thinking [https://medium.com/product-design/c356a2b806e2]: > Alongside archive/ action, now thereâs a third, lower maintenance option: scan the subject lines. They say decreasing decision fatigue helps you concentrate on the things that matterâââand I think the new Gmail represents a step in that
From my article on Medium: [https://medium.com/the-media-landscape/6d871c287663] > After years of working with journalists and writing myself, the challenge of composing emails that stand out in the right way has become something of an obsession. But I wonder, could you design an email client for journalists that
Technology
From my post on Medium: [https://medium.com/product-design/b73da88af6a6] > I like my new Android phone. It has power, it lets me have more control over the experience than my iPhone ever did and for a lot of people, it delivers in exactly the areas that iOS is increasingly
Technology
From my post on Medium: [https://medium.com/mobile-culture/9d242155ad60] > Even with a good regime of folders, the front page of my iPhone homescreen is almost like a rundown of responsibilities and considerations. Mailbox, Fantastical and Reminders. Feedly, Instapaper and Reddit. Vine, Instagram and Facebook. Tweetbot. Thereâs something
Glass
From my latest on Medium: [https://medium.com/the-world-according-to-glass/a848536efc15] > Smartphones rose to power because they took a device you always had with you and crammed it full of extra value. These portable computers used the âphoneâ concept as a trojan horse at just the right time of mobile
ios
There was a time when you had to invest in pricey new hardware if you wanted to have anything to look forward to in gadgets youâd bought. But these days everything from the smallest mobile app to film services like Netflix and console OSes continue to add value and