The Blog of Kwan

Photos of the kids using the iPad keep showing up all over the web.

Here in Forbes and Venture Beat

Alessi's 2 Year Logo

I finally finished a logo for Alessi's second birthday and created a cafepress shop for some alessi branded merchandise. Check it out & enjoy!

I've got an iPhone

So I've had a blackberry for about a year and a half for work, the phone quality has sucked to the point I've avoided using it for calls. Today I got an iPhone! We waited in line  at the AT&T/Cingular store starting at 11:30 this morning. We walked out at 7 pm with our phones. (from left, that's me, Pashmina & Tyler)

At lunch yesterday, we found.... a designer toy store

Last Christmas I was looking all over Denver to buy some urban vinyl for the team. We found a small shop called Plastic Chapel that sells designer toys. Looks like they will be moving into a larger space on East Colfax in a week or 2.

These guys look like they have a blast

To my cousins in HK: this looks like a fun place to work, they do some cool stuff. Check it out.

Kobe's 4th Birthday Logo

Kobe's shop is here: http://www.cafepress.com/kobe4

Paola's 6th Birthday Logo

A little late on Paola's birthday logo than usual. Alex as able to get it onto Paola's birthday cake, but i didn't upload it to a cafe press store in time for her party.

(She's having a WonderWoman themed party)

Update: we've set up shop here: http://www.cafepress.com/paola6

We did some pumpkin carving today

We were remembering last year carving pumpkins with the Leonards.

Some thoughts on IE7 user experience

So I just loaded IE7 tonight and haven't had many issues so far. I believe they brought a solid effort on the user experience (not tooting my own horn...yet).

1) The start up page with settings is a nice touch, it's a great way to introduce new features/settings without some silly flash tutorial.

2) Quick tabs, simple and elegant way to get a visual of your open tabs without over gadgetizing it.

3) Tabbed browsing implementation (now tooting own horn): scrolling and the dropdown with the list of tabs is something that I thought would be better when you've got 20 or 30 tabs open. It might be easier to pick from a dropdown where you can read the name rather than a 20px wide tab when the bar is full. And new tabs spawned from a page open directly to the right of the original tab. One of the things that I disliked about firefox and safari is that i'm browsing and open a link in a new tab and it opens way to the end of the stack -- out of context from where I was. But, I know it's not something people will be used to. I'm interested to hear your thoughts.

Internet Explorer 7 released

Microsoft released Internet Explorer 7 yesterday. It's exciting to me because I had the opportunity to work on the design of it with the IE team while I was at Microsoft.

One of the reasons I went to Microsoft was the opportunity to work on software that millions of people would use and help to make their experience with the computer better. And I know the entire team was working hard to make browsing more secure and better.

Congratuations to the IE team. They've taken a LOT of flack the past several years and there is a huge amount of pressure and expectation for a product that 80-90-some percent of the PC market uses.