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My Interview with the Adobe Edge Inspect Blog

It’s crunch time as I am finishing up my the content for my Adobe MAX session next month but I took a break to sit down to do an interview with the Adobe Edge Inspect team for their blog. The...

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iOS 7 concept imagines Jony Ive’s ‘very flat’ iOS redesign

Since it was recently reported that Apple and Jony Ive are working on a“very flat” approach to redesigning the iOS there have been a ton of concepts popping up. But the one above from...

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Why the iOS7 visual re-design left me disappointed

In spite of the  tone of the headline of this article I will openly admit that I am a huge Apple fanboy who has never done any digital design work on any platform but Apple. Apple is one of the few...

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Uber Trades SUV’s For Ice Cream Trucks

If you live in San Francisco or New York you have definitely heard of Uber which is an app that lets you call for a town car or SUV to get you around town or to the airport. I have used it before and...

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2014 IKEA Catalog Puts Furniture in Your Home with Augmented Reality

If we are all being honest augmented reality has never really evolved into anything more than a gimmick with very few examples of really great uses of the technology. But IKEA has once again put out a...

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My new favorite iOS apps

FOR iPAD Grid by Binary Thumb I am always looking for new ways to organize all my ideas which vary from written notes to visuals and everything in between. Apps like Evernote are great for writing down...

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Field Tripping through Brooklyn on Google Glass, iOS and Paper

I am a huge fan of using technology to enhance real life experiences as you can see the app designs I have worked on throughout my career. So I was intrigued with the app Field Trip from Google that...

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Future of e-Commerce: Virtual Glasses Shopping with the Glasses.com iPad App

I have seen technologies that have promised to bring the clothes and personal accessory shopping experience into your home through virtual reality for a really long time. First it was Tobi.com trying...

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Nest Freezes Out Customers with Latest App Update

A little over  year ago I upgrade all the thermostats in my house to Nest thermostats and have been in love ever since. But I work up in Los Angeles this morning and went to check on my house in New...

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Keyless Mobile Check-in with the Starwood Preferred Guest App

In yesterday morning’s Wall Street Journal our team got to make a little news as we announced that in a few months we will be launching a refreshed SPG app that will make your smartphone your room...

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Facebook reimagines Facebook as Flipboard?

I thought it was interesting that on yesterday’s earning call Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg talked about conquering mobile with an array of single-purpose experiences rather than cramming more...

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Facebook Creates the Photoshop of App Design

  I wrote last week about my thoughts on Facebook’s new app Paper but I later found out that the Facebook Design team created a really cool new rapid prototyping tool called Origami that they used to...

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Ken Burns’ iPad app turns U.S. History into a Mixtape

  A few months ago I got a sneak preview of a new iPad app that was being created for filmmaker Ken Burns by producer Don MacKinnon and Big Spaceship.  When I saw it I thought the concept and user...

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IDEO one ups Facebook by improving their interaction design tool

About four months ago I wrote about Facebook releasing a bit of open-source code called Origami which is a free toolkit for Apple’s free Quartz Composer application that which lets designers create...

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Vessyl – the world’s first smart cup

It is clear that fitness and health trackers are the next frontier for mobile technology as every day I see people wearing Fitbits, Nike+, Fuelbands, Jawbone Ups and many more. At WWDC we saw Apple...

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Ink and Slide: Adobe’s new cloud connected stylus review

Yesterday I was invited to join Adobe at Lincoln Center for their Creative Cloud event to announce the functionality that was released for the latest version of Creative Cloud. They also announced that...

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Apple Watch App Design Primer

If you saw any of my social media channels earlier this week then you know that I was extremely honored and humbled to have one of an incredible small number of designers who was asked by Apple to...

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MIT Combines All Your Screens Into One Experience

MIT continues to push a lot of really interesting digital innovation out of their Media Lab over the past few years. Their latest creation is called THAW which lets you use your smart phone as a tool...

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Form – the mobile prototyping tool we’ve been waiting for?

If you have been reading my blog for the past 6 months then you know that I have been searching for a good mobile prototyping for some time. First there was Origami that was a library for Apple’s...

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RE Thinking the Smartphone Camera

HTC unveiled something really interesting at their media event yesterday in New York City – a small camera call the RE Camera. It might look like a tiny periscope but the Re Camera is actually a...

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