UX

Mobile consumers these days are demanding faster browsing experiences. This study shows that a good number of users expect web pages to load on their mobile devices at speeds comparable to desktop browsing.

Today I stopped by a favourite local bakery (Uprising Breads) to get an iced latte and Avocado and Hummus sandwich. The people there are always friendly and that sandwich always terrific. The problem arose when the barista served me my coffee.

There's been quite a bit of buzz recently about the "daily deals" business, what with Groupon's upcoming IPO and the advent of competitors such as Google Offers.

There's a deli near the office that many of us frequent for lunch. They make a good sandwich at a good price (for Gastown anyway). Recently, they changed ownership and although they kept the basic format, small changes began to creep in. Now, I'm all for change but some of the new ideas were questionable. One minor change in particular annoyed me.

Many video games allow you to configure your buttons the way you want. For example, if you don't like that you have to press X in order to jump, you can assign the O button to be your jump button instead by going to a button configuration menu. Unfortunately, not all games do button config menus the way you'd expect them to.

Happy World Backup Day. This auspicious day was created by a few of the gang over at Reddit to remind us to take better care with our precious information and data. I wish they would have reminded me sooner.

OnLive, one of the newer companies to make waves in the video game industry, just announced their plans to deliver content to mobile platforms.

The big news for me out of CES (Consumer Electronics Show) has been the number of new Tablets introduced. It is an exciting time for tablet enthusiasts, with tablets running Android, Windows, and QNZ (from RIM) introduced. So, along with the iPad, you can now have a tablet running your favorite operating system.

With developments in computer vision technology such as depth-sensitive cameras, engineers are innovating new means of interacting with machines.

Smartphones are all the same. It’s not surprising. Most phones have a very similar touchscreen interface, physical buttons (give or take a few), they have similar features: camera, GPS, Internet access. The building blocks are the same.