As part of my goal to create more mobile apps, I built a simple Android app called Get Logo. The app’s purpose is straightforward: it downloads an image from the web. My goal wasn’t to create a polished product but to learn the fundamentals of making network requests, fetching remote objects, and manage multiple threads. Back…
eCommerce accounts for 2% of South Africa’s economy. That figure includes infrastructure, access, and the consumption of products and services. Also, the eCommerce is growing at a rate of 30% and is expected to accelerate in the coming years.
Last year, I designed a cross-platform mobile app experience for an enterprise client. The project was complex—the client had three brands and four apps each (iOS, Android, Windows Phone 7, and BlackBerry). It was a lot of work. To design those experiences, I took a hands-on approach: I downloaded the relevant SDKs and experimented with…
On a flight into New York’s LaGuardia Airport, I came across a water fountain unlike any I’d seen before. It had no buttons. At first, I thought it was broken. Where’s the button? I wondered. The only thing visible was a pair of small holes. I waved my hand in front of them, and to…
