I’ve noticed that many iPhone owners leave their icon arrangement in it’s factory setting position on the home screen. This is fine if you don’t install any applications or bookmarks.
What I’ve found that is very effective for me is to organize my home screens into these categories:
- my most essential and frequently accessed bookmarks & apps
- games & apps
- frequently accessed websites (that I may or may not read in Google Reader)
- infrequently used apps
I’ve also arranged my bottom tray in descending order of use, from left to right. Ironically, I use the iPhone as a phone the least , so the phone icon is at the far right.
For the first home screen are the essentials - texting, maps, calendar, weather, calculator, clock, photos, my website statistics (via Mint ), YouTube, Google Reader, Apps Store and Settings. Most of these are obvious with the addition of Mint, Google Reader and Istapaper.
Istapaper lets you...
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Unhappy Cogs in AIGA.org RedesignFrom: blog.thecombustionchamber.com
Post Date: 2007-03-03 13:05:42
Update : Since writing this I have read Jason Santa Maria ’s (creative director at Happy Cog) post on the AIGA redesign and he sheds some light on the project, and it’s something I’ve definitely experienced in my career, when you’re designing with what sounds like too many cooks in the kitchen:
The site was indeed spawned from a select number of templates. Because this was a small project for a big organization, we set out to help point them in the right...
more Don’t Even Think About Buying InnovationFrom: blog.thecombustionchamber.com
Post Date: 2007-03-09 12:32:15
Palm hires ex-Apple designer, puts iPhone in its sights (via Daring Fireball )
Even though Palm’s Ed Colligan may not like it, Apple did go and "just walk in" to the mobile phone space when it announced the iPhone last month
Wrong, wrong, wrong. Apple has been working on the iPhone for over 2 years. It seems to me that Palm has "just walked into" the iPhone market . Palm has hired a brilliant ex-Apple employee to help them.
Palm - this won’t work, trust me....
more Red Interactive AgencyFrom: blog.thecombustionchamber.com
Post Date: 2007-03-21 06:09:05
Red Interactive Agency is awesome! Not awesome for the main content, which presented in a familiar agency format, but awesome for the avatar it creates for you at the bottom of the site that you can use to chat with other visitors as well as drag from left to right, and, well .... up. Try it. (found via k10k ) ...
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