Be inspired: Over nearly four decades at Disney, Glen Keane animated some the most compelling characters of our time: Ariel from The Little Mermaid, the titular beast in Beauty and the Beast, and Disney’s Tarzan, to name just a few. Keane has spent his career embracing new tools, from digital environments to 3D animation to …
Jony Jive: A Jony Ive Soundboard
Design for Realtime – User experience principles for realtime and reactive systems
Great set of example videos (both right and wrong) on how to properly build interfaces that are updated reactively – without a page refresh (viz. “the realtime feed”). Imagine the difficulty in communicating the rationality of the system to the end user. In the realtime world our challenges are not only to build delightful features, …
HTTP/2: The Next Version of the Internet
Fail them faster
GDS – Government Digital Services – recently reworked a few application forms they have. Instead of letting the user complete everything, and then – at the end – give a notice that they’re not eligible for some reason they’ve put a simple yet clear disclaimer at the very start of the completion process. We knew …
The Inner Circle of Europe
FBSimulatorControl – A Mac OS X library for managing and manipulating iOS Simulators
Just launched by Facebook: FBSimulatorControl, A Mac OS X library for managing, booting and interacting with multiple iOS Simulators simultaneously. FBSimulatorControl works by linking with the private DVTFoundation, CoreSimulator and DVTiPhoneSimulatorRemoteClient frameworks that are present inside the Xcode bundle. Doing this allows FBSimulatorControl to talk directly to the same APIs that Xcode and simctl do. …
Kids Playing Star Wars
I know what you did last summer
Yes, bram.us is still a thing. Save a few posts mid July not that much has happened around here. So, what have I been up to the past two months? Here’s a small list (saving the best for last): I reviewed a book I went diving I renovated my house I went camping with my …