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User Experience of Ecosystems

Usage is the best identifier of a person's device ecosystem, not the devices' manufacturers...

Incoming Calls Shouldn’t Interrupt Video Recording on Smartphones

Smartphones should not interrupt users’ video recording sessions when calls come in, especially if users...

Actionable Notifications: Vision and Design

Design ideas for evolving notifications in the context of multiple devices: “actionable notifications,” treating them...

Blog Posts

UX commentary: general

Matias Duarte’s “Mobile is Dead” Emphasizes Designing for PDIs

In a video interview with Josh Topolsky for The Verge, Matias Duarte, Head of Design at Android, and formerly of...
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iOS 7: Apple Removed Text Message Options in Messages
UX commentary: general

iOS 7: Apple Removed Text Message Options in Messages

iOS 7: Apple Removes Text Messaging Options in Messages No Text Messages For iDevices! iMessage or the Highway! There are...
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iOS 7: Make Messages Stop Using Nicknames
UX commentary: general

iOS 7: Make Messages Stop Using Nicknames

iOS 7: Make Messages Stop Using Nicknames I was wrong in my iOS7 First Impressions article. There is a way...
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iOS 7: First Impressions [UX Think-Aloud 1]
UX commentary: general

iOS 7: First Impressions [UX Think-Aloud 1]

This first UX Think-Aloud article focuses on my first week with iOS 7 on my iPhone 4S, noting my impressions...
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UX commentary: general

Multitasking updated in iOS 7 with new card-style interface | iMore.com

Apple's iOS7 multi-tasking: a bit reminiscent of webOS v1.0's cards from 2009. And how are they dismissed? The same way,...
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Actionable Notifications: Vision and Design
Cross-device UX UX vision

Actionable Notifications: Vision and Design

Design ideas for evolving notifications in the context of multiple devices: “actionable notifications,” treating them as new objects in the...
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Cross-device UX

ownCloud: Could This Become An Ecosystem’s “File Stream”?

From February 24, 2013: ownCloud is a free software suite, written in PHP, that provides file storage, synchronization, and sharing....
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Incoming Calls Shouldn’t Interrupt Video Recording on Smartphones
Cross-device UX UX vision

Incoming Calls Shouldn’t Interrupt Video Recording on Smartphones

Smartphones should not interrupt users’ video recording sessions when calls come in, especially if users choose to ignore those calls,...
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Cross-device UX

Amazon MP3s Now Buyable Via iOS: Grants +2 to Its “Your Music, Anytime, Anywhere, Any Device” Aura

The Amazon MP3 store is now optimized for iOS devices….[so now], you can purchase music from Amazon's catalog…directly from an...
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Cross-device UX

Nuance’s Wintermute Could Be a “PDI-Level Property/Service”

…Project Wintermute [is] a platform agnostic voice recognition service that lives in the cloud…. intelligently saving search queries and context...
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User Experience of Ecosystems
Cross-device UX UX vision

User Experience of Ecosystems

Usage is the best identifier of a person's device ecosystem, not the devices' manufacturers.
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