by Jeffrey Mann | February 14, 2011 | 1 Comment
Good systems have good user interfaces. They anticipate what we want to do, learn our preferences and foibles; protect us from mistakes. As devices get better at anticipating what we do, they gradually become a part of our personalities, as we get more and more accustomed to how they learn about us and come to [...]
Category: Applications devices predictions Tags: design, travel, user interface
by Jeffrey Mann | February 23, 2009 | 4 Comments
This was going to be a rant about one of my pet peeves: Why does every electronic device have to have its own power cord and data cable? I am not a great gadget person, but I have accumulated a fair share of doo-hickeys: mobile phones, PDAs, iPods, work computers, GPS navigators, personal computers, cameras, [...]
Category: RIM devices Tags: blackberry, cables, chargers, GSMA, mobile, Nokia
