Category Archives: Commentary

Completely amazing and utterly boring

Posted on March 16, 2013 by

That phone in your pocket…becomes just a part of your life. It’s something you use, something you rely on. And then completely forget about. And in its own way, that’s actually kind of mind-blowing. I really like these two Wired … Continue reading →

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Google puts their money where their customers’ needs are

Posted on August 20, 2012 by

A large part of my job as our company’s mobile product manager is acquiring and evaluating new devices as they hit the market. It’s critical for me to constantly evaluate how our mobile solutions perform on the hardware that our … Continue reading →

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Product management: a cold shower for too much design dreaming

Posted on July 9, 2012 by

I’m both a designer and a dreamer, so I feel that I’m entitled to say this: designing is dreaming. Or, perhaps more accurately, it’s also guessing. And both dreaming and guessing are really great and very important. But in the … Continue reading →

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Responsive images for mobile: don’t sweat it

Posted on May 22, 2012 by

There’s been a lot of angst about how to best deliver responsive images within responsive web design. The best post to date about the issue is by Jason Grigsby, not just for the detailed analysis but because it also has … Continue reading →

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Reviewing Nielsen’s Defense in .net Point by Point

Posted on April 12, 2012 by

In the great mobile debate between Jakob Nielsen and others (highlighted in .net today by positioning Jakob against the formidable Josh Clark), I definitely side with Josh and others who embrace responsive web design. Jakob’s advice has alway been astonishingly … Continue reading →

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Minimal Viable Arcade

Posted on April 11, 2012 by

Caine’s Arcade from Nirvan Mullick on Vimeo. This is a great story (I particularly love the “Fun Pass” and prize tickets!). But more importantly, what can this teach designers about being creative with delivering minimally viable versions of our ideas? … Continue reading →

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Google Throws Android Under the Bus with Google Play

Posted on March 8, 2012 by

After a few years of battling Apple’s mobile platform and taking it on in a really serious way, it was starting to look like Google was achieving some parity with iOS. Sure, Android apps still aren’t downloaded as often and … Continue reading →

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Why content strategy is always more important than web and mobile strategies.

Posted on March 3, 2012 by

I’m fortunate to be a member of a local Lutheran congregation that spends a lot more of its time looking outward than looking inward. That is, what is important to me about “being religious” has a lot less to do … Continue reading →

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Why Kindle Fire Will be Huge

Posted on September 29, 2011 by

The new Android-based Kindle Fire was announced by Amazon yesterday, and I predict it will be the biggest challenge to iPad in the tablet space yet. Here’s why. Unlike other tablet options, Amazon’s entry is most like Apple’s. Simply put, … Continue reading →

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The False Dichotomy of Native vs. Web Apps

Posted on February 17, 2011 by

It seems like I have been coming across a lot of blog posts and tweets lately that either explicitly or indirectly critique the notion of designing native apps for mobile devices. In particular, these comments come from the HTML5 and … Continue reading →

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