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July 23, 2013
Flexibility: get focused
Seth Gottlieb wrote an excellent blog post “Flexibility. It’s a matter of perspective.” where he lays out the largely mutually-exclusive meanings of “flexible” to content creators, web designers, print designers, and developers. I would add another key stakeholder: the overall web presence owner who may want branding consistency. Put even more broadly, the website needs to be 1) coherent and 2) able to make site-wide changes.
Inflexibility in two steps, starting...
July 22, 2013
Power to the mobile OS
Although mobile technology and cloud services are in their infancy, there is a major gap that eventually (perhaps years) needs to happen in my opinion: divorcing apps from specific cloud services. Take my recent experience using Grafio (a drawing app on the iPad) for the first time:
The problem is that there is a direct, two-way connection between Dropbox and Grafio (as well as Box, as the first diagram below shows) that is fragile and requires each app to maintain. Instead, if iOS offered a...
