Leaving Sun, Joining Palm
Tablet Dreams
2010: the year we make tablets (and kill the PC!)
2010 in Design
Interesting Stuff I Read This Week
Typography 101
The Success of MultiTouch is a Lie
OreDev on Design
Art, Design, and Sweden
After 5 amazing years at Sun I have decided not to move on to Oracle. Instead I will be joining Palm as a developer advocate for the WebOS. The WebOS is an open platform with an exciting future on a variety of Palm devices, which I’ll talk about in great detail soon. For now though, I want to talk about Sun, why I’m leaving, and the future of Java & JavaFX.
Tomorrow we will hopefully awake with news of a magical Apple tablet, so tonight I thought I’d give you a few things to read as you drift off to tablet dreamland with touchable sugarplums.
Okay, perhaps that’s a bit aggressive. PCs will not go away, much like radio persisted after the advent of television. However, tablets do signal the end of the PC era. Why? Simply because PCs suck. They are heavy, prone to breakage, horribly insecure, and require too much knowledge to keep running. And they [...]
2010 is here and I still don’t have my flying car or moon rocket, much less a spaceship en route to Jupiter for some serious monolith research. Sadly, I’ll have to be satisfied with some baseless and random speculation on the year to come. Take these predictions with a boulder of salt and me out [...]
40+ Vintage Posters to Inspire Your Next Designs Color Palette
From The Design Cublicle: [link]
I’m always looking for design inspiration, especially trends from previous eras. This link has forty really cool retro (or at least retro-looking) posters that pop with great colors. The Nerd eyeglass pattern is one of my favorites.
10 Tips for Creating Compelling [...]
Typography is the study of type, meaning letter forms of the printed word; though in modern usage it includes all manner of non-printed letter forms such as computer screens, eBooks, electronic billboards, and even textiles. Typography is possibly the most important part of design because humans are visual creatures and nothing conveys more information in [...]