Richard Filing

Techcrunch fans would have seen this great article that describes the migration, not from web pages to locations as is commonly thought, but from pages to streams.

Excerpt: The stream does not replace Web pages or search, for that matter, but it has the potential to completely transform them. Already, we are seeing Web pages adopt the stream as a new user-interface. Web pages are increasingly being designed as places to present the most relevant streams of information. And with streams of data spreading everywhere, search actually becomes more important than ever as a navigation tool.

Read the complete ‘Jump into the Stream’ post

This is a comprehensive look at trends, challenges and considerations for mobile web design from Smashing Magazine.

Excerpt: Web designers know that the industry involves plenty of change, and continuous adaption and development of skills is required in order to stay up to date. In the past few years, one of the biggest areas of change has been the amount of Internet users who are accessing websites via phones and mobile devices. As a result, Web designers have a growing need to be educated in this area and ready to design websites that accommodate this audience.

Read this excellent post in full here with useful examples and links to other mobile web design standards and issues.

Choosing a key notetaking application is no small matter for an obsessive like me. For a long time I used Texnotes and similar nesting tree based solutions.

I tried Evernote when it first started out but didn’t like the emphasis on the timeline navigation. Recently I returned on the strength of the updated desktop client and the great reviews the iPhone app kept receiving. Evernote synchronises from any internet connected client and if there’s no connection the update is held in a pending state.

As the number of my imported notes increased, navigation was no problem, the tagging and search filters are very well implemented - I use Evernote every day and highly recommend it.
Read about Evernote desktop and iPhone here

John Gruber in his guidepost to sweet iPhone like UI design gives us a great quote for simplicity and focus:

Figure out the absolute least you need to do to implement the idea, do just that, and then polish the hell out of the experience.

Keywords: least and polish.

Read the complete post here