February 2012
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January 2012
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December 2011
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Androidland →
In Melbourne, Australia.
November 2011
7 posts
Interesting article on Pinterest's viral growth →
October 2011
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Hey Jordan, thanks for reaching out. Some quick thoughts for you:
Replacing Toolbar with Dashboard
I’ve always liked the dashboard approach. Visually it’s awesome and it works well for apps like Venmo. The argument against it is discoverability / burial of features. If you spend most time on Schedule, you may forget about Places or Social. I suppose it’s why Twitter went back...
July 2011
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June 2011
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May 2011
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I told him in my day when I worked on the largest takeover in the history of...
– The guy talking is a good mate.. I had to laugh
April 2011
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Debugging Android
I’ll be presenting at the Android Australia User Group meetup tomorrow night. Here’s the source code for the dummy project we’ll be looking at.
November 2010
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I was asked recently what my goals are.
They include (among other things) to work in the Global-Mobile-Consumer space; consumer applications used by millions of people from their mobile phone. I want to be part of a team that’s responsible for creating a great mobile user experience.
So, I’m really pleased to be working with foursquare this summer. Even managed to get nick at...
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Android Australia Pro-Am written up by APC... →
C.R.A.P Design Principles →
October 2010
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Nick Burton interviewed by ZDNet about Android in... →
September 2010
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August 2010
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I’m evaluating Foursquare for Android as part of a subject on Usability Engineering. We first need to identify the goals of the company which include, presumably, to:
facilitate location-based information sharing
build a community; and
guide interaction between users and brands
A genuine service, a critical mass, and a monetisation mechanism.
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Foursquare Stats Widget (Update)
One of the great things about open source projects is that people are willing to help out when they see you’ve been making an effort. Logan took the initiative to work on the integration with the main application, so the Foursquare Stats Widget should be on the Market soon!
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July 2010
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Source Code →
The source code for Foursquare Stats is available here.
Random #OldSpice Link →
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Technical Bits
Screen Sizes for Foursquare Stats Widget
There’s a layer of complexity in supporting multiple screen resolutions when using pre-scaled Drawable resources. It gets even harder when you consider both Portrait and Landscape since the pixel density swaps around.
I created 3 widgets, each with background a resource:
tiny
small
medium
(Jeff Sharkey my inspiration for the naming...
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Foursquare Stats Widget for Android
I wanted to give some visibility to the Leaderboard page of the Foursquare for Android app. Like many Foursquare addicts, I want to know how I’m tracking in relation to my peers - and frequently. So, I decided to create some Android Widgets to reduce the number of clicks to get me that information on a regular basis.
More specifically, the widgets show:
position on the leader board,...
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Daniel, can we take some of your core IP and donate it to a company valued at...
– me, to Daniel Bradby of jTribe
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We’ll create the assets for free and if they get accepted you can take us...
– Boyd Roberts, Big Picture Group
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