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A better small-device keyboard Easier interaction with small devices 3D sculpting with multi-touch Oliver Jeffers’ new interactive iPad kids book Improving traffic lights

NanoStudio iPhone app offers the complete music-making package, you can tap out drum loops, tweak synths, record and edit your own samples, and sequence and master it all, right on your iPhone.

I guess there’s already similar interfaces out there, but the breadth of availability of both iPads & Ableton makes this pretty interesting. Go Richie! Details over at http://liine.net/griid/

Find it difficult to write on touchscreen keyboards? Well fret no more with the USB Typewriter

Jacob posted this: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/ipad.html And then Johnny posted this: http://johnnyholland.org/2010/05/26/usability-ain’t-everything-a-response-to-jakob-nielsen’s-ipad-usability-study/ And Jacob demo’d what he was talking about here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/7746134/Apple-iPad-apps-need-more-consistency-says-usability-guru.html To me the, the point about the joys of discovery is fine if we’re talking about a game, but not for functional applications where the interaction is only there to get you to the content. Because [...]

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/ipad.html I totally sympathise with the points about return to the old days of Mosaic, image maps, and total confusion about what’s clickable. And I find it completely stunning that we’re even having to re-raise points about “Support[ing] standard navigation, including a Back feature, search, clickable headlines, and a homepage for most apps.”… Um, der! [...]