Archive for the ‘Bay Area’ Category
Camera Affordance
Posted by Nirav | Filed under Bay Area, Design, Facebook
Mark Bixby came up with a nifty affordance today: put a thin, tinted film on the screen of a digital camera with the cutout of a person’s head and shoulders and leave it somewhere. With no words, it’s clear that you’re supposed to take a picture of someone, in that specific zoom and positioning. Text instructions are the most primitive way of explaining usage.
Cocoa Camp
Posted by Nirav | Filed under Apple, Bay Area, Coding, iPhone
I’m at Cocoa Camp this week, a five-day intensive series of courses hosted by Apple about Objective-C and the Cocoa application development framework. I won’t be posting here until I’m done, mostly because I’m in class all day at Infinite Loop and everything I learn is covered under the iPhone non-disclosure agreement. That probably tells you enough about what we’re learning.
In the meantime, follow me on Twitter, where I dribble out minutia far too often.
Bad Science in the Mojave Experiment?
Posted by Nirav | Filed under Apple, Bay Area, Microsoft
Now, when Wil Shipley of Call Me Fishmeal writes something, I tend to listen. And not just because I like saying “Call me fishmeal” in my head. But I think he may be slightly missing the point in his recent article, “The Mojave Experiment:” Bad Science, Bad Marketing.
I do take a bit of offense when he characterizes all Microsoft products as shoddy (remember this little innovation, anyone?), but where we really differ is “Bad Marketing”. Because I think that this was, in fact, pretty good marketing. No one’s claiming that this is “science” (at least, I’m not). But it does start to change the perception that Vista is a piece of crap.
San Francisco, a Photojourney
Posted by Nirav | Filed under Bay Area
Some of the other Microsoft interns (Nathan, Aaron, and Jesse) and I went on an Intern Adventure© today to San Francisco to check out Fisherman’s Wharf. The aquarium was actually really nice. Everyone will know what this tank is all about:
