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SQL Buddy - Web based MySQL administration
SQL Buddy is an open source project designed to change the way people think about MySQL. Databases are an essential part of most projects - who knew that working with a database could also be intuitive? Give SQL Buddy a try and you might find yourself having some unexpectedly warm feelings toward MySQL. Who knows, maybe its time to let your database server move in from the garage.
Johnny Holland - It’s all about interaction » Blog Archive » The iPhone is Not Easy to Use: A New Direction for UX Design
The iPhone’s featureless touchscreen is Don Norman’s proverbial glass door. Apple has done a stunning job of making things that are pressable look like they’re pressable, but that will never be as effective as an actual button. With physical, simple buttons we can rely on motor memory to manipulate a device without paying attention. But the iPhone’s buttons are highly contextual, which forces us to pay attention to the device to remain aware of its context even after extensive use of the system. The “problem” is that the iPhone is a convergent device, a device with multiple functions. With 50,000 apps, you might even say infinite functions. The only way to build a device that serves 50,000 different purposes is to make it almost entirely free of physical affordances. Of course, the big value proposition of the iPhone is that it is the first mobile device to achieve an effective convergence.
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