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Is Design More Important than Functionality?

Posted on September 13, 2012     Leave a Comment

I have worked for several years with developers and designers; arguments often rage between the two groups about what’s more important design or functionality. It’s also interesting to put clients into this mix. When demonstrating a new system it always fascinates me how end users react. Typically if the system “looks” visually stunning functional deficiencies […]

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two Android’s and an iPhone

Posted on September 11, 2012     Leave a Comment

I’m in the process of developing a couple of apps for the Android platform. To anyone who knows me this is almost unthinkable as i’m the biggest Apple Nerd you will ever meet ….. well apart from my mate Andy Davies who I actually think wants to BE Apple! As i’m releasing apps for Android […]

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APP REVIEW: Chirp

Posted on September 9, 2012     Leave a Comment

Chirp is a brand new app, developed by University College London (UCL) explores the concept of using sound to transmit data between phones. In many ways it seems ludicrous that this is such a new innovation given that humans have been communicating via sound for millenia. Chirp works by associating a short high pitched noise […]

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Great Devices

Posted on August 25, 2012     Leave a Comment

Over the past few days i’ve been giving a lot of consideration to what makes a device a “great device”. Take the concept of a mobile phone; I got my first mobile in 1998, to be blunt, it was a BT cellnet brick. At the time I thought it was the best thing in the […]

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