Interpreting today’s digital landscape and how it is transforming the human experience.
Recently a co-worker came to me expressing some dismay about the launch of an upcoming video game. It featured characters and a theme she was really excited about, but what made her worried was the platform: the game was coming out only on iOS. “BOO!” she said. “Serious games don’t live on mobile devices,” she implied. Is iOS a viable [...]
In 2009, half a billion people accessed information via the mobile web. In 2010, the numbers almost tripled. It’s expected that in less than five years, mobile web browsing will surpass the personal computer for the most popular way to browse the web. The dramatic increase in mobile internet usage isn’t terribly surprising, but what is surprising is that there’s [...]
IT departments are often built out of people who loved to tinker and play with code in college, so it’s surprising how many of them don’t apply these techniques to their day jobs. Prototyping is effectively the process of taking any larger application or interface and breaking it down into individual parts that can be built and tested in [...]
Next Up: Tony Hillerson and Zach Pinter speak on “Rails on HBase” at RailsConf 2011.
EffectiveUI will be at two major industry conferences at the end of the month: Web 2.0 Expo and Gartner Customer 360 Summit. Team members RJ Owen and Michael Salamon will present “Design Essentials for Developers” at Web 2.0 Expo.
EffectiveUI interaction designer SuAnne Hall presents 5 (underwhelming) ways to start using HTML5 today.
RJ Owen offers a few of the more salient lessons he’s learned about project management from watching The Food Network.
EffectiveUI developer RJ Owen reviews Sencha Touch, a mobile UI framework from Sencha.
Jon Reid, Senior Developer at EffectiveUI, shares slides from “From the Trenches: A Practical Approach to Building the Accessible Web,” presented at the 2010 Accessing Higher Ground Conference in Boulder, CO.
We’ve witnessed for quite awhile now that as companies rush their mobile strategies, they are actually hurting and not helping their brand. The good news is it can be avoided. In the last year we’ve received a significant increase in requests for mobile apps, and almost 50 percent of our clients, including Fortune 500 companies, are looking for help with [...]
