App stores have drastically changed the traditional view of how to market software. User ratings and reviews can steer a mobile application in a completely different direction than the developer originally intended. The community has never had so much direct control of the development process of proprietary software. Here are some tips for developers starting [...]
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Gesture Recognition Moves Beyond Gaming
by Steve Sechrist | Comments
Gesture recognition holds the promise of new frontiers in user interface that will change the face of coding forever, in much the same way that touch technology did a few years ago. And while touch-based computing has been around for decades, it wasn’t until the advent of the smartphone and “smart devices” like tablets that [...]
Re-Thinking User Interface Design for the TV Platform
by Jim Mischel | Comments
Internet television is the next big thing. Already, people are connecting their computers to their televisions with special-purpose devices like the Boxee Box, Logitech’s Revue, Roku, Apple TV, and home theater PCs (HTPCs) of all descriptions. These and other devices give you access to the vast quantity of free and pay content available on YouTube, [...]
Rethinking Performance in a Post-Desktop, Browser-Based World
With JavaScript toolkits increasing their own performance by as much as 1000% per year, coupled with browser makers tripling their products’ performance in the same interval, Web sites everywhere should be accelerating by unfathomable factors. And that’s the problem: They’re not.
