http://www.marceloeduardo.com/blog Rants about Games, Mobility and Interaction design Wed, 07 May 2008 13:42:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I hope the rest of the year will be as good as the last 6 months. :) Now just 2 more years to reach mach 3 :) http://www.marceloeduardo.com/blog/vacations/today-my-engine-was-upgraded-to-28 After a couple of years working on a mainly developer based company, it has been quite nice to see the Design team to grow and show it's value in the last year. But one problem has arrived for us here in Brazil: There's not available professionals around. I know nowadays ... http://www.marceloeduardo.com/blog/design/user-interface-design/more-than-they-are-just-the-graphics-guys By Krisse: You see Canola as over-simplified, but I see Hildon as over-complicated. I think the reason we disagree is because we have totally different ideas about the kind of person that would be a potential tablet user. I would just change that to not use the actual things, but what ... http://www.marceloeduardo.com/blog/design/user-interface-design/too-much-talk-and-we-can-resume-with-this Apart from the title, that is just to grab your attention I really wanted to make sure some people understand one thing: Knowing how to criticize is a crucial thing to have your message heard. Also I wanted Maemo Developers and some heavy users to know another thing: The most ... http://www.marceloeduardo.com/blog/design/user-interface-design/the-flame-goes-everywhere-canola-haters-unite You were arrested in a foreign country by "no reason"... What do you do? you twitter "Arrested" then all your friends will call your embassy on the country you are to set you free faster than a bullet. http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/16/twitter-saves-man-from-egyptian-justice/ I can't imagine a better publicity for twitter than this :) Ad ons video Also, ... http://www.marceloeduardo.com/blog/advertisement/the-best-pr-ever-twitter-the-savior The post entitled Visualizing Fitt's law is really a nice reading. Even if you have read that more than 5 times before, you will like the way it was written and illustrated. A nice bookmark for those who are "consulted" a lot in the Ux field :) For those who are ... http://www.marceloeduardo.com/blog/design/user-interface-design/never-enough-a-really-nice-post-about-the-fitts-law This : The 37signals's post tells exactly what I was prepared to post. I just feel sorry for the probably competent Interaction designer who was the one to carrier the "I Don't care! I want just like the IPHONE" task. http://www.marceloeduardo.com/blog/design/if-carriers-could-run-the-cellphone-design-decisions-what-happens http://www.marceloeduardo.com/blog/business-matters/the-press-release-for-the-wimax-tablet-cool We are trying to hit beta10 :) this release adds the requested audioscrobbling and fixes a lot of previous problems. If you use Canola2 please make sure to update, update themes and then install Last.fm and youtube updated version. Hope people like it :) Changelog : http://www.openbossa.indt.org/canola/news.html Developer tool : http://www.openbossa.indt.org/canola/developer.html http://www.marceloeduardo.com/blog/canola/canola2-beta-8-released-lastfm-desktop-dev-build-lots-of-fixes Jeff Mancuso, dev of expanDrive : With high-level languages and good libraries, small teams can create great products at a rapid pace. We realized that we could write applications for the desktop in the exact same way. We rewrote SftpDrive from top to bottom in Python, with a GUI in Objective-C. ... http://www.marceloeduardo.com/blog/programming/we-are-for-sure-not-alone-on-python-for-development Hei guys :) I would like to say that this is coming, and if everything goes right you will have it at least for linux :) Video : It's fully functional, has some small problems in fullscreen (some screens are not yet ready for fully scalable uis ) but you can test everything ... http://www.marceloeduardo.com/blog/programming/sneak-peek-into-a-dev-tool-for-canola So you can already download the new canola from the application installer and put it to test. The beta7 brings the major modifications to allow third party plugins and youtube was developed like one. It's indeed a full example because it has also "theme" files so if you are a python ... http://www.marceloeduardo.com/blog/design/user-interface-design/canola2-beta7-is-out-youtube-is-out-with-sources-and-more-to-come I made this video while ago, but it's nice to see that are step by step moving to it :) Youtube is coming to beta6, and we are working as hard as we can to make Upnp available for Beta7. We are just not satisfied with the user experience as it ... http://www.marceloeduardo.com/blog/design/user-interface-design/whats-coming Grab yours here : http://openbossa.indt.org/canola/add.html or just refresh the application installer :) The flat simple theme goal is to speed up some interactions by using less transparency on several images. It really works http://www.marceloeduardo.com/blog/design/user-interface-design/3-new-themes-released-for-canola2 Yes, one more beta in this long road to final version :) if it is going to ever be a final version (just to be trendy we will be always on beta). This is a huge update on the core of Canola2, and we tried to make it as stable ... http://www.marceloeduardo.com/blog/gadgets/canola2-beta6-released