Birth of an App, Part 7

March 4th, 2012

Pictures chosen and edited – check. Stories written and edited – check. Categories (finally) decided and named – check. Music composed and optimized for the iPad – check. App optimizing and troubleshooting completed – check. (Although there were some pesky crashes on the iPad 1 that needed some serious analysis...

Birth of an App, Part 6

February 28th, 2012

My first experience with the app on an iPad was amazing! The vision I had months earlier was actually a living, breathing, application. The diagrams, sketches and words on paper had changed into animations and transitions I could touch. I could actually play with the app and see what the...

Birth of an App, Part 5

February 25th, 2012

The app was starting to take shape – ideas for sequences, transitions, animations, colors, formats were shared and discussed and played with. Screen shots gave us a sense for how the app would look and initial animations were looked at first on the pc and then an iPad. An entire...

Birth of an App, Part 4

February 21st, 2012

After playing with dozens of apps, I had a clear picture of what I thought would work and not work for my app. The brief I wrote ultimately communicated my vision to get the design going and outlined several key things the app needed to deliver. Based on my original...

Birth of an App, Part 3 (of what’s becoming a number)

February 18th, 2012

So now I was motivated to get the project done. All the signs pointed to “Just Do It”, but now the question was: How? I visited with a few friends who believed I could do it myself, but I know where my strengths are and when it makes sense to...

 

The market

Connections

The power of a single image

Our sense of vision often delivers us the first impression of a person or place; it helps us communicate as we “look for clues”; it helps direct our actions and movement. The summer when I was 11 years old I signed up for a “summer strings” program, designed to introduce...

Ten years on

Ten years ago this week I walked off a plane from the US into a new era in my life. What started out as a chapter unexpectedly turned into a volume. Life is like that sometimes. I could not have anticipated, even dreamed of, all the changes in my life...

‎”If you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it at full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be.” – Roald Dahl

‎”Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes.” – Benjamin Franklin

Nothing less than insanely great work

Several years ago I visited with management thought leader Tom Peters at one of his seminars and received this inspirational note from him. The message sits on my worktable even today. Does it ever make sense to do less than insanely great work? Maybe it’s how you are cut, but...

 

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