Adobe's New Photoshop Touch Apps for iPad

Today, Adobe announced upcoming apps and updates to Creative Suite all aligned with the iPad. Check out this video of Adobe Senior Vice President John Loiacono discussing the updates.

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Adobe Recasts the iPad as High-Tech Palette for Photoshop

Why Apple Succeeds: Users, Not Designers, Have the Best Ideas

Frog Design writes about creating ecosystems in which users and developers can grab the reins and be creative – and why that's a better strategy than trying to control the design yourself.

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Why Apple Succeeds: Users, Not Designers, Have the Best Ideas

Your Design Is Wrong (And Here's Why)

Mike Rundle explores the pros and cons of design critique on Dribble, and where design execution can go wrong. Mind that kerning!

Your Design Is Wrong (And Here's Why) ~ Flyosity by Mike Rundle

App Icons on iPad and iPhone

Handy for those doing mobile application work for iPad and iPhone:

Technical Q&A QA1686: App Icons on iPad and iPhone

Great iPad Apps for Web Designers

Here's a great collection of iPad apps for designers, including sketching tools, analytics, web development, and one of my favorites, Air Display, which turns your iPad into a second monitor. Great for OmniGraffle palettes:

Read more:

10 Best iPad Apps for Web Designers | Tools

Sketching on the iPad with the iClooly Stylus

Review of the Korean stylus "iClooly":

• Sketching with the iClooly Stylus | Konigi

Also, check out the iPad sketching group on Flickr:

• IPad sketching group

Hat tip to Jeff!

modulR iPad case and iPad accessory system

Interesting and elegant modular system of accessories for the iPad. Scheduled to be released this summer.

• modulR iPad case and iPad accessory system / go anywhere. do anything.

The State of Web Development 2010

Here's a look at the state of web development this year; developers clearly love their Apple products. Check out the summary of results or the in-depth report for more information. You can also download the PDF above.

World of Warcraft on the iPad?

Here's a bit of speculation for your Monday morning. PvP in the cloud, via software called Gaikai, or Photoshop hackery? You decide- enjoy!

• World of Warcraft on the iPad With The Help of Gaikai

Designing for the iPhone and iPad - A Collection of Pre-Built GUI Kits

 
If you are developing interfaces for the iPhone or iPad and are looking for pre-build GUI resources, check out this comprehensive collection from Speckyboy:

• iPhone and iPad Development GUI Kits, Stencils and Icons - Speckyboy Design Magazine

Designing for iPad: Reality Check

Are you designing apps for Apple's iPad? Check out this blog post from Information Architects.jp.  They dig into typography, interaction design, the iPad's 3-dimensional elements and much more.

They also include a ton of interesting insights into what worked for them, what didn't, and some of the ways they experimented to get their UX right. Definitely worth checking out:

• Designing for iPad: Reality Check

13 of the Brightest Tech Minds Sound Off on the Rise of the Tablet | Magazine

Its launch is imminent; will the iPad change how we interact with our world, or be just another computing device?  

13 of the Brightest Tech Minds Sound Off on the Rise of the Tablet | Wired Magazine

Grammy Awards Music

Yeah, ok, so a lot of the top awards finalists were kinda, eh. But, if you use iTunes, check out this link to all of the finalists in all categories and music genres. There is a ton of great music to be discovered, even if you're not so Gaga over the Lady:


Grammy Finalists and Winners

Death to the mobile Web?

Now that the iPad has been announced and all the mystery is gone as to hardware specs, pundits are relegated to opining as to the effect of the iPad on technology in general.

While some writers try to make a business case for an iPad, this writer suggests that iPads will spell the end of the mobile Web in general. Who needs websites reduced to tiny, ultra-efficient form factors when you can experience them on an iPad?

What do you think? For $30 a month, will iPhone users ditch the data and turn their iPhones into iTouches?

Apple's iPad Will Be the Death of the Mobile Web - PCWorld

The iPad and Flash

There's been a lot of discussion about the lack of Flash support on the upcoming iPad, and the impact on users' browsing experiences. There's a synopsis of the issue over at PC World, and many other blog posts and articles discussing the issue.

Over on the Flash Blog, they took a simpler, dare I even say Apple-like approach, and distilled the issue down to a graphic. As my friend Justin Thorp said over on Twitter, "Ouch."

Flash has become so integrated into the larger browsing user experience, the lack of support for it on a device intended to provide the ultimate browsing experience is painful. On a positive note, the conflict has at least reduced the jokes about the product name.

The Flash Blog » The iPad provides the ultimate browsing experience?

The iPad, and Sketching User Experiences

There's been a lot of discussion about the iPad among the design team at Clearspring – who will get one, the features we like, how we can trick the powers that be to get one for us (kidding, Hooman!) My partner in crime Jeff Wong wrote a blog post about his reactions to the iPad, and I'll probably write something more later, however I came across a link this morning that I thought I'd mention.

As an interface designer, one of the applications that immediately came to mind was collaborative sketching and wireframing, which would suggest something like a stylus. Steve Jobs mentioned this in his speech ("oh hell no", or somesuch) but most folks figured a third party would come up with one anyway. Yesterday, PC Magazine posted an article about Pogo releasing a stylus, with speculation that another would be quickly forthcoming specifically for the ipad.

So we shall see; there's the obvious issue of how easy it is to lose a stylus, although if I can keep track of my pen and my socks, I suspect the problem is surmountable.  I'd probably just clip it to Apple's nifty multipurpose iPad Case (scroll down that page, it's towards the bottom.)

[Ed. As an aside, check out the little thumbnails of this jacket-case: Apple hasn't said much about this accessory, but note how this case doubles as a viewing stand, and typing stand, addressing one of the usability issues brought up about how it would be hard to type on the iPad when the back is beveled and it is sitting on a hard flat surface. Another point for Apple: solving problems with elegant simplicity. I just hope it can stand up to everyday use... better buy two.]

So, would you use a stylus? Will you buy one of these? Wait for second generation? What feature or accessory is on your wishlist?

What Apple Needs to Do to Make Its Tablet a Success

This interview from PC Magazine contains some interesting thoughts around user experience and devices like the iPhone, iPod, the Newton (remember that?!) and whatever Apple may or may not be announcing tomorrow. Look for discussion around designing devices like a "tablet" for creative professionals, versus something akin to an iPhone with a different form factor for more of a consumer audience... and should it have a phone? A fun read.

What Apple Needs to Do to Make Its Tablet a Success

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The killer app for Apple’s tablet: Gaming?

The rumors and speculation are relentless- what's *your* killer app for the Apple Tablet?

The killer app for Apple’s tablet: Gaming

Concept Multi-tasking for the iPhone

Ocean Observations explores the idea of visual multi-tasking for the iPhone. Can I have this, soon, please? From their page: "The number one requested iPhone feature multitasking is tackled in this 'What if iPhone had...' concept by Ocean Observations. There are several benefits of multitasking, and we believe it will come to the iPhone sooner or later. "

YouTube - oceanobservations's Channel

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Touch interface

AppleInsider | Evidence of Apple's tablet-like input interface reappears

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