TaskPaper — great model for a Rev app
THIS is the type of app that could be done really well in Revolution. It's small, simple, elegant—and fun to use. Excellent workflow!
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You can't make it pretty later
Click image below to view Stephen Anderson's excellent slide show...
via Garry Tan
Workflow
Workflow is guiding the user to what's important when it's important.
Look at the above. Everything here is important. Therefore, nothing here is important.
Workflow means taking a stand on behalf of the user, even if he whines about it, initially.
Big Bang Concepts and API's
John Gruber wrote a great piece entitled "Bang" this week. He spent some time talking about how to come up with concepts for an app. I always like his "bare minimum" approaches.
Gruber also drew in comments from Craig Hockenberry (Twitterrific) and Fraser Speirs (Exposure, a Flickr client). A fairly thoughtful, pithy read, this one.
John was talking specifically about iPhone apps, but, since the role of APIs in design/architecture was also discussed, I thought it worth posting a link to it here as we ponder using APIs in content management systems.
Visual Hierarchies
In this great article, comment is made on Apple's proper use of visual hierarchy in the new Safari 4.0 (although having tabs in title bar has raised eyebrows). ALSO: Panic's Coda visual hierarchy is examined in the same light.
If you design apps, read this article in its entirety (link in "via" line above), as well as Steven Frank's (engineer at Coda) follow-up article via this link.
Tip of the hat to John Gruber for his coverage of this in his blog Daring Fireball.
