Responsive design might work for uncomplicated, one-off websites, he said, but for applications or networks (such as LinkedIn is), responsive design is actually bad. “We’re looking at the ‘entrenched’ use case [for desktop users], the coffee-and-couch use case [for tablet users], the two-minute use case [for mobile phone users],” Prasad said, rapidly outlining a few of the ways people are interacting with digital information and highlighting how unique each of those scenarios can be — and how different are the needs they present. “You can’t take a mobile app and just scale it up to tablet or desktop,” he said. “A lot of responsive design is building one site that works everywhere, and that works for websites. But it’s bad for apps… You have to come up with a completely different design because of the use case.
There’s a stage in a product cycle where you know it’s going to ship. Where you can see the end. It’s right there, sitting at the corner of Emerson St. and University Ave. Or maybe sipping coffee at Fraiche.
Oh, hello, it waves — there. In front of you. The End. (Or, An End.) And seeing this puts you in a special space that when you think about it — think about all the work that it took the team to get there, to bring that end so close — you are overwhelmed with a flood of emotions.
While Galileo played life and death doctrinal games over the mysteries revealed by the telescope, another revolution went unnoticed, the microscope gave up mystery after mystery and nobody yet understood how subversive would be what it revealed. For the first time these new tools of perceptual augmentation allowed humans to peek behind the veil of appearance. A new new eye driving human invention and discovery for hundreds of years.
Learning to program isn’t the hard part. The biggest challenge is figuring out how all the moving parts of a web application fit together. There’s no book for that,” she said.
NowJS can be used to make a chat server in 12 lines of code
The Xoom browser is not ready for prime-time — even for “HTML4” — and it urgently needs a patch update if Motorola wants the product to succeed.
- A developer may not injure Apple or, through inaction, allow Apple to come to harm.
- A developer must obey any orders given to it by Apple, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
- A developer must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
— I. Developer
iKids, a one-day conference “that will help you bridge the gap between your kids entertainment properties and app revenue through better planning, better partners and better execution”.
Building your App-titude, Sarah Berliner, vp of content, ScrollMotion
Where It’s At: The Current Landscape
Scott Chambers, svp of worldwide media distribution, Sesame Workshop:
Of all the paid assets [Sesame Workshop] has on iTunes 7% are apps that make up 45% of the revenue.
Josh Koppel, founder and chief creative officer, ScrollMotion:
Shai Samet, founder and president, kidSAFE Seal Program:
The Connected Consumer, Jerry Rocha, vp of mobile media, The Nielson Company
Case Study: Dr. Suess eBook Apps, Michel Kripalani, president, Oceanhouse Media
Case Study: Angry Birds, Claes Kalborg, svp of brand and licensing strategies, Rovio Mobile
Of all the paid assets [Sesame Workshop] has on iTunes 7% are apps which make up 45% of the revenue.
