At school I remember being taught how to read a timetable - quite a skill. They can be complicated things and require a fair amount of detective work to ensure you don't try and travel on a Sunday expecting to find normal train scheduling.
Even online train times and train timetables are a bit confusing. But on the iPhone that seems to be a thing of the past. The limited interface has forced designers to simplify the whole thing. So if you want to travel from Peterhead to Kings Cross - it tells you when to get on and when you'll get off - result.
I know will use the iphone to find train times rather than a PC - its so much easier. Well done to the designers of the trainline iphone app.
Showing posts with label iphone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label iphone. Show all posts
Friday, 9 April 2010
Wednesday, 7 April 2010
iPod and touch screens
On buying an iPod as a present the other day I found myself behaving rather oddly - I kept touching the screen to make it do something. It struck me that the iPhone has a lot to answer for - because I was holding the device in my hand my brain was obviously telling me how to use it....wrong!
It shows how quickly we accept new interfaces and how quickly really cool ones become old hat. In its day the interface for the iPod was genius. We've developed a fair number of interfaces - based on an automated retail banking background - but iPod and iPhone - we would never have come up with (pity). As web developers we use our previous skills and the innovations of the market leaders to help us arrive at good design - maybe one day we'll come up with something better than the iphone - that would be good.
It shows how quickly we accept new interfaces and how quickly really cool ones become old hat. In its day the interface for the iPod was genius. We've developed a fair number of interfaces - based on an automated retail banking background - but iPod and iPhone - we would never have come up with (pity). As web developers we use our previous skills and the innovations of the market leaders to help us arrive at good design - maybe one day we'll come up with something better than the iphone - that would be good.
Wednesday, 27 January 2010
A software renaissance
There seems to be a renaissance in Software Development these days and the credit (in large part I think) has to go to Apply and their iPhone. The beauty of the iPhone is the interface and the way in which is has forced software developers like us to think more about the way in which a user uses their product.
Our background is in automated retail banking software so we know more than most about simple to use interfaces - but hats of to the iPhone guys - a work of genius.
Our background is in automated retail banking software so we know more than most about simple to use interfaces - but hats of to the iPhone guys - a work of genius.
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