Mark Hurst weighs in on the iPad

philg - February 3, 2010 @ 6:41 pm · Filed under Uncategorized

Mark Hurst, the user experience expert, has weighed in on the iPad, and included a funny video.

Separately, a friend said that he wouldn’t buy an iPad because it didn’t have a camera. He wanted to be able to use it for Skype-style video chat.

6 Comments

  1. John

    February 3, 2010 @ 7:45 pm

    1

    Surely, an iPad with a camera, built-in USB port, augmented reality interface, and complete sentience is sitting in an interior room at 1 Infinite Loop.

  2. Ryan Tate

    February 3, 2010 @ 8:19 pm

    2

    Suddenly, your unvisited links are nearly impossible to see. Could you make them a more distinctive color, or underline them?

  3. philg

    February 3, 2010 @ 8:44 pm

    3

    Ryan: One of the joys of this server for me is that I don’t do any design or sysadmin. I leave everything to the bright young minds at Harvard’s Berkman Center.

  4. yes

    February 4, 2010 @ 2:04 pm

    4

    http://weblog.muledesign.com/2010/02/the_failure_of_empathy.php

  5. Andreas Sikkema

    February 4, 2010 @ 5:46 pm

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    If you like a camera to make closeups of your nostrils and third chin, yeah, then a camera is useful. Or do you prefer to hold a book sized object at arms length at shoulder height?

    A camera is probably the most useless item an the iPad wish list.

    –
    Andreas

  6. Bas Scheffers

    February 4, 2010 @ 9:38 pm

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    Andreas: unless you put it in the (keyboard) dock on you desk!

    If they teach it to multitask in iPhone OS 4 so you can surf and chat to your friends at the same time, the iPad could be a compelling offering for many.

    I’m getting one as soon as they are available – so other people can pay me to write software for it for them.

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