When I’m designing an icon, I find it useful to preview how it will look in situ on an iPad’s home screen. To make this easier, I’ve created a couple of Photoshop templates to help me mock up how they’ll look on an actual device.
The iPad has a reputation for being difficult to type on. It’s generally accepted that the iPad is okay for short emails and notes, but is not suited to longer documents. The anecdotal consensus seems to be that an on-screen keyboard, with no tactile feedback, leads to more errors than a physical keyboard with real keys. Based on my research today, I’m not sure that this is the case. Instead, it may be a bug in the iPad’s keyboard software that is causing some of the typing errors.
I run an app development company. Hardly a day goes by without someone telling me they’ve had “a good idea for an app” – usually just before asking me to develop it for them.
Yesterday I attended the NESTA / Rewired State Make It Local hack day. Myself and five other developers were challenged to create something useful with local data in six hours. My contribution was “My Commute”, a travel planning web site for your daily commute to work.
We’ve updated our National Rail Enquiries app ready for iPhone 4, and have converted all of the app’s assets into beautiful high-definition format. We’re really pleased with the results, so I thought I’d post some screenshots as a sneak preview of how the app will look.
I’m an iPhone app developer. I’m interested in new apps that do interesting things. I also have an interest in data privacy. So when I heard that the Conservative Party had launched an app with a canvassing feature, I thought I should try it out.