Whenever the idea of doing a mobile version of CloudForge came up there was usually a rather lukewarm reaction from he product owners and biz dev. The nature of the service simply did not lend itself to a mobile experience. We’re talking about IT in the cloud which takes a lot of serious decision making, analysis, and careful action. Mobile seemed so “on the go” to an organization with roots in SVN. There was this one use case, though. Something that came out of the Customer

Now that we’ve got an MVP ready to submit to the store, it’s time to start iterating on improvements. The app works, it’s intuitive for the majority of testers, and it even has a bell and whistle (singular) but now we need to make some moves to make it a bit more seductive. Each of the following are non-functional prototypes and are being used to test before narrowing down any viable ideas. Click on each to read a description of the whys and hows. #protoyping #interface #uxde

I’ve been spending some time cleaning up my HTML and CSS in the Flojuggler iOS app. Trying to stay within semantic standards is becoming my latest obsession. I call it an obsession because, like all rules, there’s a time and a place for everything. While it would be great if everything could be super clean all the time, sometimes breaking the rules gets the project to where it needs to be. That said, this example is within the rules. 😉 Here’s a snippet that includes a simple

The shadow is applied to the action buttons only. This makes them stand out against the dominating flat design of the item list. The conspicuous dimension of the shadow invites tactile investigation by the user. The following images are direct grabs from the simulator. These are not mockups. Once the MVP is done I tend to do most of my refinement in live code. If the feature is drastic enough, like the control drawer pictured above, then I’ll mock it up first. That way I can

Andrew Dahlman’s local notifications plug in is a life saver. He’s bridged the gap between the native Objective-C library and your standard JavaScript app sitting in the web view wrapper. I know that he submitted the plug in to the official Phonegap build but I’m not sure if it made it in. It should! Like many open source projects, the original writer can’t stay on the project forever. When updates to dependencies occur software can become difficult to install/use. Such is th

Yes, it’s true! I know you think I’m mad for even considering using anything but Chrome with SublimeText2 or 3 or whatever. After all, Chrome has dominance over the rest in browser share (something like 80% last I read) and has some rock solid dev tools built in while FireFox still uses Firebug to do most dev’s heavy lifting very well. TextMate was all the rage when Rails was king but this is the internet business and kings fall fast around here. Now anyone not using Sublime

Flojuggler is the lifestyle menstrual tracking application designed to track the cycles of multiple persons. There are times when you want to know which of the women in your life are having their periods. See the illustration below. I created the entire brand, site design, and programming which included  “Facebook style” image management, extensive AJAX feature sets, JQuery UI integration, all on a true MVC architecture. This was another opportunity to invent a service from t