PETER BURNHAM

Busoni

peterburnham — Wed, 15 May 2013 00:48:52 +0000

The function of the creative artist consists of making laws, not in following laws already made.

- Ferruccio Busoni

Linds Redding

peterburnham — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 18:32:57 +0000

It is a universal truth that all artists think they a frauds and charlatans, and live in constant fear of being exposed. We believe by working harder than anyone else we can evade detection. The bean-counters rumbled this centuries ago and have been profitably exploiting this weakness ever since. You don’t have to drive creative folk like most workers. They drive themselves. Just wind ‘em up and let ‘em go.

- Linds Redding

From his blog Lindsredding.com

Luke W. on Touch Applications

peterburnham — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 18:33:02 +0000

Interesting Luke W./Intel video on using touch for desktop/laptop interactions.

Accessibility Updates in iOS 6

peterburnham — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:06:45 +0000

Apple is finally taking a more proactive stance to begin integrating accessibility features into their iOS 6 platform. So far the updates seem fairly minimal, but it’s a step in the right direction.

Apple’s Guided Access locks the user into a single app and restricts access to specific screen navigation elements to provide enhanced tast focus.

Mobile, and especially touchscreen, has traditionally been plagued with accessibility issues, which is partly due to the relative newness of the platform as well as inherent form factor limitations. At the same time, mobile is also the one area that has the largest capacity to affect change in the lives of those with disabilities.

Hopefully we’ll start to see more mobile applications that consider the 19% of the population who have some type of disability.

Read more at UX Magazine’s great article Designing for Everyone: The Role of Accessibility in Service Design.

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peterburnham — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 00:38:42 +0000

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Beautiful UI Gestures

peterburnham — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 16:36:34 +0000

Check out this great collection of UI gestures. I really like the fold below.

Nice example of a “fold” gesture.

iOS Sexy Interface Guidelines

peterburnham — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 19:47:56 +0000

Some people really have too much time on their hands…

WTF iOS Guidlines

See the whole collection here

Balzac

peterburnham — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 19:57:28 +0000

If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself into the enemy’s trenches, and if, once in this crater, he does not work like a miner on whom the walls of his gallery have fallen in; if he contemplates difficulties instead of overcoming them one by one … he is simply looking on at the suicide of his own talent.

- Honoré de Balzac

Hemingway

peterburnham — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 19:54:37 +0000

There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn’t show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story.

- Ernest Hemingway

Kurtz

peterburnham — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 18:36:51 +0000

If I’ve learned one thing in the 14 years I’ve been a full-time cartoonist, it’s that you can not let anyone else define your professionalism. It has to be a personal ethos to which you adhere despite third party influence or acceptance. The old measuring sticks for professionalism are going away and now more than ever it’s time for independent creatives to set the bar. Set it high.

- Scott R. Kurtz