Linked List: September 21, 2010

Tuesday, 21 September 2010

R.I.P. Six Apart 

No longer a joke.

Paul Thurrott: Droid ‘Spells Doom for iPhone’ 

Paul Thurrott:

Aside from the abysmal online store experiences, however, Android and the DROID X are first rate. And looking ahead, I’ll be comparing this system to the upcoming first generation Windows Phone 7 devices, and to Apple’s latest iPhone, to see where these systems fall. For now, however, Android and the DROID X are, warts and all, already neck and neck with the iPhone 4. It’s scary to think how one-sided this would be if Google just put a handful of UI experts on the marketplace. Game over, Apple. Game over.

Sure, that’s the ticket. Just add a couple of “UI experts” to the Android Market team.

‘The Process Is Really Just Iterate, Iterate, Iterate’ 

Speaking of UI designers, Lukas Mathis has a nice interview with Chris Clark.

Bureau 

Promising new weblog from UI designer Thibaut Sailly. Just a few articles in, but great insight on the new Twitter for iPad, and a nice piece about the clever design of the Bureau website itself.

Update: Was fireballed for a bit, but seems to be back.

‘Never Mind the Bullets’ 

Web comic implemented in HTML5, part of Microsoft’s “Beauty of the Web” campaign to promote IE9. (Don’t bother trying it on an iPad, though — the navigation is hover-based, and there’s no hovering on the iPad.)

Another New Kindle Commercial 

No comparison to the iPad, but the message remains the same: works in daylight, can be held in one hand, only $139. That’s a strong, simple message. Now that the Kindle starts at such a low price, you can think of it as analogous to an iPod. What the iPod Nano is to music, the Kindle is to reading.

Oracle and HP Kiss and Make Up Over Mark Hurd Lawsuit 

Hurd keeps the cash but gives up the HP stock options he got in his severance package, and all is now well.

Twitter.com ‘onmouseover’ Security Flaw Widely Exploited 

Twitter claims it’s been patched.

Sports Illustrated iPad App Goes Horizontal-Only 

Editor Josh Quittner cites the cost of designing two layouts for each spread, and the smaller download size. It’s an interesting design question whether design-heavy iPad magazine editions should support both orientations. We don’t expect games, for example, to support both. (Via Peter Kafka.)