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I am currently a software engineer at Google, where as a member of the Android platform team I build frameworks and user interfaces.

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Archive for July 9th, 2007

iTunes UI iterations.

July 9th, 2007

You might recall that, several months ago, I went a little nuts about the iTunes 7 UI. To this day, I stand by my complaints, though I freely admit that my tone could have benefited from some moderation.

The ThinkMac blog (which, by the way, posted their own gripe about many of the same things I objected to) observed over the weekend that several of the most glaring inconsistencies were tidied up in iTunes 7.3. (For those keeping score, these are gripes #2 and #4c in the original dissection, plus the subsequent discovery of the impossible-to-hit pane resizer.)

Thanks, iTunes UI team!

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Google Reader: not for news junkies?

July 9th, 2007

Over the weekend I decided to fire up Google Reader again. (I’m still a fan of NewsFire, but now that I’m using the other GApps I’m sort of hooked on instant, painless, in-sync access from multiple machines.)

The UI is better than I remember it, but what is the deal with the message latency? At 4PM central time I took the following screenshot:

Five hours? I’m all for fetching feeds less frequently, but this delay is absurd. Is Google trying to cure my ADD?

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