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George Penston  //  A UI designer with too many ideas and too little time. I have an unhealthy amount of knowledge on Adobe and Apple software and video games. You should follow me on twitter here.
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May 29 / 8:44am

Why the Zune HD doesn't have a better UI than the iPhone

According to the Gizmodo, the Zune HD is "tighter and more physically beautiful than the iPod Touch and it's got a better UI".


While it's easy to gain hits by saying the Zune HD may have a better UI than an iPhone, any user experience designer will tell you it suffers from the same major issue as the original Zune UI: no affordance. There are no apparent visual cues as to what is meant to be tapped and what isn't. You're expected to know that big lowercase text words are intended to be tapped to navigate. Sure, you could argue this is a heuristic process but why should it be? It's yet another example of Microsoft going the other way with something to be completely opposite from Apple but not realizing they're also doing something completely opposite of what is good user experience design.
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Mar 27 / 7:57pm

Recent Apple patent filing speaks of stealth biometric security on iPhone

No one probably believes me but I jokingly mentioned this last week that Apple should just use biometrics for unlocking your iPhone instead of requiring a passcode.

I also find this diagram interesting because it's the first Apple artifact I've seen that labels the application manger the "Springboard". I've heard people call it this but until now, I've only seen Apple refer to this as the Home Screen.

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Mar 3 / 9:40pm

Amazon's Kindle for iPhone hits the App Store

I know everyone says the iPhone is/would be horrible for reading, but I'm certainly willing to give it a go. I have the Classics app and find it works fine.

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Mar 3 / 9:34pm

Inside Apple’s AirPort Extreme, Time Capsule updates

The dual-band feature is probably the thing to push me over to want one of these now. I've always been about a generation behind on these but now I think I'm ready.

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