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A summary of the iPad UX Guidelines: http://www.uxmag.com/design/ipad-user-experience-guidelines
Video - Highlights of the iPad native app presentation given by Steve Jobs:
Video - Highlights of the iWorks apps on the iPad:
Images - Detailed Flickr gallery of iPad UI conventions including comments:
Images - Detailed Flickr gallery of iPad UI interactions best viewed as Slideshows: http://www.flickr.com/photos/designingwebinterfaces/collections/72157623252108597/
iPad scrubber navigation considerations: http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1006
Heightened physicality & realism considerations: http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?996
The humble To Do list has been updated, with the Dunnit! iPhone app using gaming-style achievement points for every task completed. Sure beats scribbling on the back of an envelope I guess, though it'd be better if they translated into redeemable points.
Having some sort of incentive to tick off every task on the list would definitely make me more pro-active, especially if you could translate them into iTunes gift cards or something. Though at $4.99 a download, the developer Runloop would have to be raking in a lot of downloads for that to make financial sense.
Dunnit! lets you compete against friends who also use the iPhone app, and you can tweet your results to your followers—if you dare. [iTunes via Mobile-Ent]
This is a really nicely considered iPhone app. It does what it says on the tin and the achievement point-focused incentives is genius - kudos Dan, it's wicked ;p
Go check out the app on the App Store.
Find out more about the development team here.
This is awesome. More info at: http://www.musion.co.uk/
Many thanks to Albion London for putting on a cracking panel last Wednesday in Spitalfields for a discussion on Digital Democracy and the impending UK General Election. More info on the specific event can be found here, including a video with Alan Rusbridger's insightful views on Us vs. Them and Open vs. Closed.
With the UK election getting into full swing, MPs have been scrambling over themselves to be interviewed by the MumsNet community. Both David 'Call me Dave' Cameron and Gordon 'I'm Just about to Blow a Gasket' Brown have courted the active and passionate Mums.net community, but having heard from Justine Roberts, founder of MumsNet, I'm really not sure what kind of impact either of them made with that community. They're doing what politicians have always done; look at stats/results, target a particular demographic of disenfranchised, sitting-on-the-fence voters and trying to woo them. But is that it? Is the UK election really 'The MumsNet Election'? The UK election isn't going to be anything like the US Obama election, that much is clear. So far all we've heard are fluffy promises and the same old negative politics and fear; this time though such tactics are being amplified for all the wrong reasons by digital. It goes to prove that in this general election you have to say something meaningful.
"We are going after the tens of thousands of young voters. If we get their vote, we will win by a landslide.”
Ms Omond said that if she wins the election, she will put a third of her salary into local projects selected by her constituents. She also vowed to do one day of community service each week and said she would ensure everyone in the constituency who is eligible to vote is registered by the end of her first period in office.
Ms Jackson, Labour MP for Hampstead and Highgate, last year repaid more than £8,000 in expenses she had wrongly claimed. Glenda Jackson has previously been shown to be one of the MPs who offers least value for money.
In 2007/2008, she claimed £136,793 in allowances despite turning up for only 27 per cent of votes and speaking in just two debates.
Ms Omond said: “The expenses scandal definitely influenced my decision to stand. People in the constituency I've spoken to are incredulous that Glenda Jackson would even bother standing in the election. She is the laziest MP in London.”
Ms Omond said the Climate Rush group would be “heavily involved” in her campaign: “We're going to have people dressed as suffragettes going door-to-door offering to draught-proof houses and sort out insulation.
Should be interesting, if only as a side show...
