Category Archives: UX

Virtual Reality vs. Augmented Reality vs. Holograms

Posted on January 23, 2015 by

On January 21, 2015 Microsoft Announce that the science fiction of holograms has become science fact.  They announced a new product, based on Windows 10, called HoloLens.  The first self contained, wearable computer that can create holograms.  This announcement has … Continue reading →

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Can Technology Go Too Far?

Posted on February 5, 2014 by

Over the past two posts I started to explore the concept of ubiquitous computing. I started out by defining ubiquitous computing, and then followed that up with a post that talks about how developers can contribute to the ubiquitous utopia. … Continue reading →

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“My” Contribution To Ubiquitous Computing

Posted on January 27, 2014 by

In my last post, Ubiquitous Computing–Breaking Down the Silos, I talk about how ubiquitous computing is starting to make its way into the world around us.  You may know ubiquitous computing as pervasive computing, ambient intelligence, Internet of Things, haptic … Continue reading →

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Ubiquitous Computing–Breaking Down the Silos

Posted on January 22, 2014 by

During Build 2013, I attended a session on Ubiquitous Computing given by Bill Buxton.  This was one of the better sessions given at Build, which is saying something since there was not a single line of code shown.  I have … Continue reading →

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Modern Enterprise Applications – Native Application vs. Mobile Web

Posted on February 19, 2013 by

In my recent post, A Mobile Web Strategy, I covered some of the architectural decisions that go into build a mobile website.  I glazed over the process of choosing whether to a mobile web application or build a native application. … Continue reading →

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Modern Enterprise Applications

Posted on January 4, 2013 by

Each day technology advances, along the way the definition of an enterprise application has changed.  In the olden days enterprise applications would be installed on a users machine with possibly some backend services for aggregating data. These applications had to … Continue reading →

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My Thought on Windows 8–A User’s Perspective

Posted on December 17, 2012 by

Recently there has been a lot of different reviews for Windows 8. Some of them good some of them bad. Dr. Jacob Nielsen, a user experience expert, wrote an article providing his insights into Microsoft’s new operating system.  The article … Continue reading →

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