Designing Interactive Products

CSS Beauty upgrading to MT4!

I'm glad to see that CSS Beauty is upgrading to Movable Type 4. I'm hoping that they'll include the new movabletype.com site in their gallery :)

Movable Type 4

We released Movable Type 4.0 last night!

I joined the team late into the process of creating this new-and-improved version of the popular blogging platform, so my contribution was small by comparison, but I did design the new movabletype.com website. I'll be posting about some of the details of the design soon.

Nooooooooo!!!!!!

Update: A truly wonderful Genius at the downtown SF Apple Store replaced my iPhone. Hooray!

I was here with the rest of the Movable Type team at the Six Apart offices late last night for the release of MT4 (I'll post about that separately). I was walking back into the conference room where we had our 'war room' set up and I bumped into the table. I didn't think much about it until I realized my iPhone was in my pocket. I took it out and -- horror of horrors -- the glass was cracked. I let out an expletive that can't be repeated here. It was a tough way to end a long day.

I'm hoping that Apple will replace it, but I'm not going to hold my breath.

The switch to the iPhone

I bought an iPhone a few days ago and I have to say that it's an impressive little device. The thing that really makes the difference is the browser. For example, when I receive an email with a link to a web page I know that I can just click on it and go check it out directly on the phone. That's something I never did on my Blackberry Pearl.

The application I'd like to see added to the home screen (aside from IM) is a sports tracker where you could see the day's scores for your favorite teams. Blue Flavor has partially addressed that with their baseball Leaflet app.