Ronnie Liew is a creative technologist who strongly advocates that technology and design mutually drive great digital work. He revels in exploring emerging technologies, pushing boundaries in the digital space and turning the next big idea into reality. His technical background in computer engineering and keen understanding of interaction design has equipped him to play a bridging role between technology and design, harnessing the best of both disciplines.Tumblr (3.0; @ronnieliew)http://ronnieliew.com/<p>I was invited to speak at the <a title="SingTel Accelerate" href="http://accelerate.six.sg/">SingTel Accelerate</a> conference in Singapore a month ago. My topic was on &#8220;<a title="Mobile Application Design/Development" href="http://www.slideshare.net/ronnieliew/mobile-application-design-development-5465097">Mobile Application Design/Development</a>&#8221;. I just got around to posting it on SlideShare and here it is:</p> <p> <object id="__sse5465097" width="500" height="418"> <param name="movie" value="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=mobileapplicationdesigndevelopment-101017080133-phpapp02&amp;stripped_title=mobile-application-design-development-5465097&amp;userName=ronnieliew"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed name="__sse5465097" src="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=mobileapplicationdesigndevelopment-101017080133-phpapp02&amp;stripped_title=mobile-application-design-development-5465097&amp;userName=ronnieliew" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="500" height="418"></embed></object>  </p> <script src="http://b.scorecardresearch.com/beacon.js?c1=7&amp;c2=7400849&amp;c3=1&amp;c4=&amp;c5=&amp;c6="></script><p>It&#8217;s a collection of my observations and notes based on my experience while working on mobile projects. Most of the examples are based on the iOS but the points are easily applicable on any mobile platforms. Enjoy and please feel free to drop me comments, I welcome all feedback.</p> <script src="http://b.scorecardresearch.com/beacon.js?c1=7&amp;c2=7400849&amp;c3=1&amp;c4=&amp;c5=&amp;c6="></script>http://ronnieliew.com/post/1416210440http://ronnieliew.com/post/1416210440Thu, 28 Oct 2010 01:22:00 +0800<a href="http://blogs.nokia.com/pushburton/">Nokia Push Burton</a>: <p><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4083/5019758470_eea5136ff2_o.png" alt="Nokia Push Burton" width="500" height="246"/></p> <p><a href="http://blogs.nokia.com/pushburton/">Nokia’s Push project</a> has been exploring sensor integration with skateboards. The project has now evolved into a collaboration with <a href="http://www.burton.com/">Burton Snowboards</a> whereby similar motion data collected by the senors will be pushed wirelessly to Nokia phones carried by the snowboarder.</p> <p> <object width="500" height="300" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/iiCv_7RxBh8?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0"> <param value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/iiCv_7RxBh8?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0" name="movie"><param value="true" name="allowFullScreen"><param value="always" name="allowscriptaccess"></object> </p> <p>Very intriguing to consider the potential for a platform like this and how the data generated by the snowboarder can be visualized and analyzed for performance.</p>http://ronnieliew.com/post/1177366085http://ronnieliew.com/post/1177366085Fri, 24 Sep 2010 13:16:00 +0800<a href="http://vimeo.com/15142335">The Future of the Book</a>: <p> <object width="500" height="281" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=15142335&server=vimeo.com&show_title=0&show_byline=0&show_portrait=1&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0"> <param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=15142335&server=vimeo.com&show_title=0&show_byline=0&show_portrait=1&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0"></object> </p> <p><a title="ideo.com" href="http://www.ideo.com/">IDEO</a> presents “The Future of the Book”, great concepts and vision of how books would evolve into the digital age.</p>http://ronnieliew.com/post/1176987564http://ronnieliew.com/post/1176987564Fri, 24 Sep 2010 11:51:00 +0800<a href="http://www.dentsulondon.com/blog/2010/09/14/light-painting/">Making Future Magic</a>: <p><a title="Making Future Magic" href="http://vimeo.com/14958082"><img src="http://www.dentsulondon.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/future-making-future-magic-dentsu-london-berg-ipad-light-painting1.jpg"/></a></p> <p>Very innovative technique used to create stop-motion film of 3d light forms by using long exposure to capture cycling line projections on a moving iPad .</p> <p> <object height="281" width="500" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=14958082&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=ffffff&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0"> <param value="true" name="allowfullscreen"><param value="always" name="allowscriptaccess"><param value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=14958082&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=ffffff&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0" name="movie"></object> </p> <p>Read more about this at the <a href="http://www.dentsulondon.com/blog/2010/09/14/light-painting/">Dentsu London blog</a>.</p>http://ronnieliew.com/post/1141510312http://ronnieliew.com/post/1141510312Sat, 18 Sep 2010 13:09:00 +0800<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/LD_cSDngBXo?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>ROAMPay - Turn your cell phone into a mobile point of sale (POS) terminal.</p> <p>Similar concept and competing in the same space as <a title="Square" href="https://squareup.com/">Square</a>.</p>http://ronnieliew.com/post/1140857953http://ronnieliew.com/post/1140857953Sat, 18 Sep 2010 10:57:00 +0800<a href="http://www.likecool.com/FAILED--TShirt--Style.html">Mario Fail</a>: <p><a href="http://www.likecool.com/FAILED--TShirt--Style.html"><img src="http://www.likecool.com/Style/TShirt/FAILED/FAILED.jpg" alt="Mario Fail"/></a></p> <p>Mario Fail.<br/>Great t-shirt idea.</p>http://ronnieliew.com/post/1119678615http://ronnieliew.com/post/1119678615Tue, 14 Sep 2010 14:20:00 +0800<a href="http://www.mtv.com/photos/vma-2010-lady-gaga-lookbook-mtv-style/1647403/5199030/photo.jhtml">Lady Gaga's meat dress</a>: <p><a href="http://www.mtv.com/photos/vma-2010-lady-gaga-lookbook-mtv-style/1647403/5199030/photo.jhtml"><img src="http://www.mtv.com/content/style/photos/flipbooks/vma-2010/lady-gaga/104036847.jpg" alt="Meat Dress"/></a></p> <p>Lady Gaga turns up at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards in a gown made of sirloin strips. I have nothing against meat or vegetables but I find this repulsive. </p>http://ronnieliew.com/post/1119638872http://ronnieliew.com/post/1119638872Tue, 14 Sep 2010 14:08:00 +0800“What if everything around you<br/> Isn’t quite as it seems?<br/> What if all the world you used to know<br/> Is an elaborate dream?<br/> And if you look at your reflection<br/> Is it all you want to be?<br/> What if you could look right through the cracks<br/> Would you find yourself…<br/> Find yourself afraid to see?”http://ronnieliew.com/post/1095910115http://ronnieliew.com/post/1095910115Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:07:00 +0800<a href="http://www.google.com/instant/">Google Instant </a>: <p><a href="http://www.google.com/instant/"><img src="http://www.google.com/images/logos/ps_logo2.png" width="100%"/></a></p> <p>Google search on steroids, turbo-charge your search now.</p>http://ronnieliew.com/post/1087411615http://ronnieliew.com/post/1087411615Thu, 09 Sep 2010 02:13:00 +0800<p> <object data="http://www.youtube.com/v/g7_mOdi3O5E&amp;rel=0&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;version=3" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="300" width="500"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/g7_mOdi3O5E&amp;rel=0&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;version=3"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></object> </p> <p>Screen technology that we needed yesterday.</p>http://ronnieliew.com/post/1178390511http://ronnieliew.com/post/1178390511Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0800<a href="http://www.thinkofthe.com/product.php?name=speak-er">Speak-er</a>: <p>Creative product design for speakers.</p> <p><a href="http://www.thinkofthe.com/product.php?name=speak-er"><img src="http://www.thinkofthe.com/media/images/products/speak-er/1670/speak-er-1.jpg" align="middle" width="100%"/></a></p>http://ronnieliew.com/post/1069738506http://ronnieliew.com/post/1069738506Sun, 05 Sep 2010 22:20:00 +0800