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The Battle for the Living Room Is Over — The War for the Consumer Is On
Companies that control the UI will dictate which software is accessed, and how.
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More Design Tweaks for Facebook as Friendship Pages Get New Look
Facebook will introduce a new layout to its Friendship Pages feature, the company announced Thursday, another in a series of recent visual tweaks for the social networking giant. The design refresh brings a Timeline-esque look to the Friendship section, with a heavier emphasis on photography. The visual refresh will begin with a small percentage of users, gradually rolling out to all users over the coming weeks.Welcome to the Jony Ive Era at Apple
Jony Ive becomes the new steward of Apple’s user experience.
User Interface Guru Leaves RIM
Hampus Jakobsson, founder of The Astonishing Tribe, becomes the latest executive to leave the struggling BlackBerry maker.
Usability Guru Pours Cold Water on Kindle Fire
What’s annoying, heavy and slow and suffers from bad UI design?
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Early Adopter: Is the Future of User Experience Design Made of Paper and Polish?
Everyone can move a sticky note. This is the concept of the trio of creators of UXPin, a paper prototyping kit for mocking up a Web site before a single line of code is ever written. It has become popular with designers who value speed and iteration–and, now, they’ll be able to UXPin-up a whole new set of interfaces.
PlayBook on Track for Q1 Kick-Off
Research in Motion’s PlayBook tablet is on schedule for launch in the first calendar quarter of 2011. And that’s the word from the company itself.
Mac App Store Lacks Social Apps, Save for Twitter
Social apps are few and far between for the grand opening today of Apple’s Mac App Store, meant to be a desktop app marketplace equivalent to the highly successful app stores for Apple devices.
Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer and Ray Ozzie Live at D8
As an indicator of the headwinds facing Microsoft and its CEO, Steve Ballmer, today, two pieces of news last week are worth considering. The first, that Apple had overtaken Microsoft as the world’s most valuable technology company, would seem to signal Microsoft is no longer quite the driving force in technology that it once was, particularly in the consumer space. The second, word of a restructuring that will give Ballmer greater oversight of Microsoft’s Entertainment and Devices Division, indicates the company is scrambling to change this.
D8 Video: Steve Jobs on the Origins of the iPad
Apple’s iPad may have followed the iPhone to market, but it preceded the smartphone conceptually. During a Tuesday evening interview at D8, CEO Steve Jobs said the idea for the iPhone was born of a very early tablet prototype that would years later become the iPad.