How bout one for babies? That monitors too? Ben.
Find: leatherbound compares ebook prices -- how to search shelves?
We need an app to locate purchased books on amz Goog b&n borders iTunes. Ben.
Find: Google's Matias Duarte talks Honeycomb, tablets, and the future of Android
Video interview of the lead designer of Google's Android, who arrived shortly after HP bought Palm. Ben.
Find: Via Sagar: Android #1 smart phone platform
Nokia has a new CEO who will announce a new strategy on February 11. Ben.
Find: Preschoolers better at navigating iPhone than tying their shoes
So true. I have 2 and 4 year old. Ben.
Finds: Sony's next-gen PSP (NGP) has a quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor, quad-core GPU as well
Wow. Four core gpu and CPU. Front and back touch screen. Never heard of imagination tech before; it's a uk mobile chip design house. Ben.
Find: Xbox veteran Ed Fries joins Razer
Razer makes the switchblade, which has a keyboard with LEDs behind each key. So it can change for each game.
Find: Study shocker! Mobile users piddle around on the internet while watching TV
We use the internet while we're watching TV. App opportunity? Ben.
Find: Amazon celebrates its first '$10 billion quarter' in sales, finds Kindle books overtaking paperbacks
Amz sells more ebooks than paperbacks. Ben
Find: Hummingbird, Snapdragon, OMAP and Tegra 2 Smartphone Processors
Comparison of mobile processors. Ben.
Find: Screenshot Tour of Android 3.0 Honeycomb, Built for Tablets [Screenshot Tour]
Preview of honeycomb, android for tablets. Ben.
Find: Seek Droid is the Simplest Way to Find Your Lost Android Phone [Downloads]
As mentioned in class. For finding a lost phone. Ben
Find: 3M touts capacitive touchscreens with tiny bezels, 10x faster responsiveness
More compact responsive touchscreen tech. Ben
Find: iPhone 5 and iPad 2 will come with NFC built in, suggests well-connected analyst
Art mentioned this in class. Ben
Find: Compulab makes a tiny Tegra 2 computer for the lilliputian community
After motorolas atrix, here is a netbook with "mobile" insides: no phone attached. Dual core 1.2 ghz fanless .6 inch thick and sips just three watts. Ben
Find: Weather on your mobile phone, now with added fun
New interactive weather results in google mobile. Ben
Guest: Art Swanson of Allscripts speaking in 591 tomorrow
Folks,
We will be visited by Art Swanson (LinkedIn, Quora) of local medical practice management software maker Allscripts. Allscripts is one of the leaders nationally in that field. Art will talk about their process for mobile development.
Please do your best to come and participate.
Best,
Ben
Find: Google unveils Conversation Mode for Translate app
Mentioned in class: voice to speech translation on android. And word lens, camera to screen translation. Ben
Find: Nexus One gets tiny update to Android 2.2.2, fixes SMS routing issues
Update for our phones. Ben
Find: Sony 3D “Headman” visor, glasses-free 3D Blu-ray player
Would u watch movies w visor on a plane? Maybe when it's less obvious and lets me see real world to side.
Laptop glasses free 3d makes sense.
Ben
Find: CES: Mirasol color e-reader display ready for its close-up
Another e reader display tech. Not good in dark but color and interactive. Ben.
Find: CES: Your wish is the (iPhone-controlled) Sphero ball’s command
Hmm. Robo soccer? Remote exploration or snooping? Cheating at bowling? Ben
Find: Eric Schmidt: All of Google's Strategic Initiatives in 2011 are Mobile
Google focused on mobiles. Predicts 1B smartphone users in a few years. Ben.
Find: Democratizing Development: GameSalad Helps Amateurs Create 1,500 iOS Games
A game engine for iOS. Ben.
Find: Noborizaka Turns Your To-Do List into an Epic Game Quest [Video]
To do lists as games. What else could be game-ized? Ben
Studio: our teams, our phones, our ideas (updated)
Folks,
We'll be forming teams, distributing phones, and dreaming up app ideas today.
Update: we referenced our mind map from earlier while doing some ideation.
Update: we referenced our mind map from earlier while doing some ideation.
Lecture: design for software (updated)
Updated: we will be visited by Art Swanson (LinkedIn, Quora) of local medical practice management software maker Allscripts. Allscripts is one of the leaders nationally in that field. Art will talk about their process for mobile development.
Next week I'll try to bring this design stuff home to our software world. We'll talk about design method, and about what design means for software. The two readings I'd like you to react to by Monday evening are:
Next week I'll try to bring this design stuff home to our software world. We'll talk about design method, and about what design means for software. The two readings I'd like you to react to by Monday evening are:
- S. Kuhn. The software design studio: an exploration. 1998. IEEE Software, 15, 2, 65-71.
- D. Kelley & B. Hartfield. The designer's stance. 1996. From T. Winograd, Bringing Design to Software, Addison Wesley. (This page his some annoying format problems that seem less annoying in Internet Explorer).
- Most of the Winograd book above is online, and well worth checking out. In particular,
- See D. Schon & J. Bennet. Reflective conversation with materials,
- And M. Schrage. Cultures of prototyping.
- You can learn more about Shon's perspective in his paper, Design as a reflective conversation with the materials of a design situation. 1992. Knowledge-Based Systems, 5, 1, 3-14.
- Kuhn elaborates in a slightly different context in her paper, Learning from the architecture studio: implications for project-based pedagogy. International J. Engineering Education, 17, 4-5.
Find: Shoeboxed to move to new office, double staffing
Local co shoeboxed digitizes receipts w your mobile. Ben
Lecture: design thinking and process (updated)
Hey folks,
Sorry I didn't get the readings out promptly this week. Because of that, we'll make our reactions due again on Friday. Here are the readings for Friday:
We will also look at the TED lecture on design thinking by Tim Brown, head of IDEO.
Finally, we may also play with some mind mapping tools. A few online tools were recently reviewed by GigaOm.
Update: I've put the results of our mind mapping experiment online here.
Best,
Sorry I didn't get the readings out promptly this week. Because of that, we'll make our reactions due again on Friday. Here are the readings for Friday:
- A small book about design thinking and process has been written by NC State's College of Design. Please give your special attention to the introduction by Hargrove, and the final chapter by Fitzgerald.
- Chris Pacione wrote a manifesto of sorts for design thinking in Interactions magazine. (As a counterpoint, please see the column by Don Norman in Core77).
We will also look at the TED lecture on design thinking by Tim Brown, head of IDEO.
Finally, we may also play with some mind mapping tools. A few online tools were recently reviewed by GigaOm.
Update: I've put the results of our mind mapping experiment online here.
Best,
Ben
Find: D@CES Highlights Video: Nvidia's Jen-Hsun Huang [BoomTown]
Nvidia CEO on Graphics on mobiles. Ben
Find: Game Written by a 14-Year-Old Passes Angry Birds as Top Free iPhone App [Mobilized]
Angry birds dethroned by 14 year old. Ben
Find: More details emerge on Apple's A5 chip for upcoming iPad 2 and iPhone 5
iPhone 5 and iPad 2 leaks. Ben
Find: Gestural Interfaces: A Step Backwards in Usability
Norman and Nielsen critique mobile uis. Ben
Find: Ars Staff picks: our 10 favorite iOS apps of 2010
Ars picks for best android and iOS apps. Good to learn bout apps as u prepare to write your own. Ben
Find: Notion Ink Adam clears FCC, begins shipping 'around Wednesday'
This tablet uses a new display tech readable outside or in. Ben
Find: Crytek seeking iOS developers, leaves us guessing at the reason
Crytek wants to make mobile apps. Crysis on phones and tabs? Ben
Find: 'Find my Friends' MobileMe feature revealed in iOS 4.3 developer build
iOS helps find friends. Android latitude already does it. Ben
Find: BlackBerry Balance announced, gives your phone a split personality
Virtualization on mobiles. Ben
Find: Qualcomm unveils dual-core Snapdragon reference handset at CES 2011
Dual core 1.2 ghz CPUs in phones. Ben
Find: Intel CEO Paul Otellini addresses Microsoft's ARM move in the wake of record earnings announcement
Intel on windows on arm chips and win 8 for tablets. Ben
Find: GoTriangle Joins Google Transit
Transit and wolfline on google, and available for mobile apps. Ben.
Studio: Android hands-on
Hey folks,
In our first studio we'll get down and dirty with Android. Time permitting, we'll:
- Play with Google's App Inventor, which lets you build simple apps interactively
- Install the Android IDE (in Eclipse), per Sarah Heckman's tutorial
- Give the "Hello World" tutorial a shot
Best,
Ben
Find: Best of CES 2011
Summary of ces has lots of mobile stuff including motorolas atrix mentioned in class.
Ben
Find: AT&T iPhone 4 vs. Verizon iPhone 4: what's changed?
Verizon iPhone! Great in US but not abroad. Ben
Find: Google Android passes Apple iOS in U.S. market
Hey folks,
The OS statistics I mentioned in class today.
Best,
Ben
Find: Letting everyone do great things with App Inventor
App inventor is Google's tool for making simple Android apps. We might all start playing with it this Thursday. We will go beyond it into real coding though.
Best,
Ben
Find: Exclusive interview: Google's Matias Duarte talks Honeycomb, tablets, and the future of Android
Matias Duarte is the former Palm designer now running Google's Android effort.
Best,
Ben
Find: BlackBerry PlayBook preview
Hey folks,
Here's the new Blackberry Playbook tablet I mentioned in class, with the new OS QNX.
Best,
Ben
Find: NVIDIA announces Project Denver ARM CPU for the desktop
Hey folks,
Here's the NVIDIA designing ARM (low power mobile) chips announcement I was talking about today.
Best,
Ben
Here's the NVIDIA designing ARM (low power mobile) chips announcement I was talking about today.
Best,
Ben
Lecture: Introduction (updated with notes)
Hi folks,
Look forward to meeting you all tomorrow (maybe). I'm posting a few readings now -- certainly don't expect you to read them before tomorrow. But please do post your reactions by week's end on the Moodle. Our readings are:
Look forward to meeting you all tomorrow (maybe). I'm posting a few readings now -- certainly don't expect you to read them before tomorrow. But please do post your reactions by week's end on the Moodle. Our readings are: