http://www.marceloeduardo.com/blog Rants about Games, Mobility and Interaction design Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:41:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en While true, zero effort cross platform would be nearly impossible but what if you could do it for your mobile devices with minimal efforts? Also it would be really nice if designers and developer are able to do more "rich" UI style software with less effort. This is how I ... http://www.marceloeduardo.com/blog/design/user-interface-design/the-cross-platform-qt-era-is-coming It all started like the video says. I got to Patricia asked her to do something really beautiful with Qt 4.6 in mind. Ian, Tam and Patricia then got together for this really fast project and now they also did a small video to show how it was done. When ... http://www.marceloeduardo.com/blog/design/user-interface-design/changing-the-weather-with-qt-by-indt Here is the full film now: really honest recording of my daily life, and while people were commeting int he blog "Why would I want to hear this guy?" It's not about hearing some unknown nerd, it's about watching how different people around the world use technology in their daily ... http://www.marceloeduardo.com/blog/design/user-interface-design/portraits-how-technology-is-present-in-your-life-nseries-short-films So, the Nseries blog has just posted a sneak peak into the series of influencers films that they are doing. The first one features me :) with all my ugliness :) I was really worried about having a crew recording 3 of my days but now it's really fun to ... http://www.marceloeduardo.com/blog/design/user-interface-design/the-short-mobile-technology-documentaries-are-coming  [caption id="attachment_595" align="alignnone" width="450" caption="The new user interface, part of what should be a great user experience"][/caption] So Intel released a new version of Moblin with a totally new GUI aiming to bring the best use of those small screen beast, Netbooks and MIDs. While I was looking at the screenshots ... http://www.marceloeduardo.com/blog/design/user-interface-design/mobilin-linux-user-experience-in-full-throttle Well, I have been living pretty much in chaos mode for the last months so now new posts. Most of the stuff is going on my twetter ( @marceloeduardo ) and I have at least 7 draft posts here to finish. Maybe after the trip to Taiwan I will be ... http://www.marceloeduardo.com/blog/design/user-interface-design/not-much-here-recently After a lot of work (mostly of convincing people of the importance of open sourcing it) we are now able to release Canola2 full code with GPL v3. You Can read Etrunko's post about the release: here and the code is located in our code repository: http://code.openbossa.org/ http://www.marceloeduardo.com/blog/maemo-dev/we-did-it-canola-is-open-source I loved it, and after that a friend of mine (Steve eponto) told me that this was one of the best animations he has ever watched, it deserved a post. Gary from Gary on Vimeo. http://www.marceloeduardo.com/blog/design/user-interface-design/you-need-to-see-this [caption id="attachment_586" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Palm Pre, Photo from Engadget"][/caption] Palm seems to have done an incredible work when it comes to UX. While I am definitely not convinced by the " Web" part of the WebOS, it seems that the user interaction design was done inside a small centralized team and ... http://www.marceloeduardo.com/blog/design/industrial-design/palm-pre If there's one thing that the iPhone brought to spotlight to Nokia S60 users like me is the pain behind the access points. Even if you have unlimited data plans you will suffer. I read last week about a tool that helps prioritize the access points, but I think this ... http://www.marceloeduardo.com/blog/apple/little-annoyances-that-becomes-big-things-part-01-access-points