Metaphor on the iPad
An essay I wrote for Dan Cavicchi’s Audience class at RISD about the use of interface metaphors on the iPad, and why it was justified for Apple to strongly suggest developers use them in their Human Interface Guidelines.
Reactions
-
-
Wonder Bread
Working with three other people, we researched Wonder bread, and created a project from our findings. We didn’t have the most positive reaction to the product, so we chose to draw critiques on the bread using Wonder’s own slogans.
-
Acknowledge the Screen
Visit the Campaign's SiteA collaboration with Micah Barrett. Frustrated with our Graphic Design department’s lack of focus on screen design and with the less-than-inspiring prompt we received for the semester’s final assignment, we decided to create a campaign to raise awareness instead.
-
Spec Work or Dialogue?
There is a big difference between spec work or crowd sourcing and voicing ideas about a redesign on Dribbble, and that difference is audience.
-
Good for Good’s Sake
A post on Drawar criticizing some designers’ reaction to Gap’s new brand seemed so off-base to me I had to respond.
-
WebAdvisor Simplified
After two years of using WebAdvisor at RISD, I finally had enough. Now with Chrome and Safari extensions, I never have to look at its interface again.
-
Matchuppps
Play the Live AppMatchuppps was my entry into the 10kApart competition. The prompt was to create a web application in less than 10KB of code. Matchuppps came in at 6,216 bytes and went on to win the “Best Design” award.
-
Striped Shadow
An expansion on Sasha Grief’s tutorial on Dribbble to make it work in HTML/CSS.
Only works in Webkit browsers.
-
Forget Fear
You shouldn’t need to “test an idea out” before you run it on your own blog. Have people forgotten that blogs are about opinions?
-
Opera Mini Makes Me Cringe
The Opera Mini application was just approved by Apple and honestly, I’m disappointed.
-
Dead Presidents
An experiment based off of David Desandro’s post on his blog.
