Steve Jobs passed away today. What could have been in his mind just moments before passing away? Family? Wife? Daughter? Apple? His lieutenants? Wondering how they would continue the Apple’s legacy? Wish for a bit more life time? Imagining what’s still ahead and possible in the evolution of human computing? His creative mind could have [...]
I have been running my iPhone 4 on iOS 5 beta for a few weeks and have found this UI Design blooper which is related to the Notification Center Gesture. In general, in iOS 5, wherever you are, you can swipe across from the top to the bottom to un-hide the notification center that gives [...]
Today, I took some time to capture couple of checkout flows that are known to be well AB-tested and optimized: 1800flowers.com and Vistaprint.com. Here is the summary of my review. 1800flowers.com: Flower and vase options are given first The overall checkout flow is reduced to five steps: Product Page -> Shopping Cart -> Sign-in or [...]
Okay – today, using my developer license, I was able to get my iPad 1 and iPhone 4 updated to iOS 5. [plrease skip over this paragraph if you don't have a developer license] I encountered the update error (3002), and after numerous software updates and reboots, eventually found one blog comment that said, ‘alt+restore’ [...]
Today, I looked at the New York Times iPad app. Overall, I think NYTimes is doing a great job staying up to speed on the technological shift in platforms and experimenting on the right things to find a model that will help them stay profitable. I like the ‘Instant-On’ experience of NYTimes iPad app. Right [...]
I have a great respect for Amazon.com especially for its AB-testing culture and for the well tested recommendation engine. However, whenever I look at their login form, it raises some questions in my mind. When you click on the login link from Amazon.com home page, you see the following login form (as of April of [...]
iOS Cloud Sync Coming Soon? Sorry – I don’t know if it is. I’ve been reading up on iPad 2 reviews and I don’t know if Apple is following these, but it is repeatedly mentioned that lack of iOS Cloud Sync is Achilles’ heels. Apple needs to take Apple-like approach and start from scratch on [...]
Imitating is not good enough. You are short selling yourself. How do you go from constantly lagging behind to leaping ahead? Foresee the future of computing and pull it forward. What Apple has done is they looked at their touchscreen technology while creating their first few prototypes of tablets and realized that they had an [...]
