Sometimes an interactive program I wrote for my computer won’t quite run right on my phone. Or else it will run, but not the way I expected.<\/p>\n
And sometimes something that worked great on my phone won’t seem quite right on my computer. Or maybe a program runs just fine on both my phone and my computer, but not on my multitouch tablet.<\/p>\n
So I tweak and adjust things. And not just the technology underneath but also the design of the user interface.<\/p>\n
Because the way you use your mouse or touchpad on your computer isn’t really the same as the way you use your stylus and fingers on a tablet. And neither is the same as the way you interact with your phone.<\/p>\n
And when you’re working on a VR\/XR headset, that’s yet again a whole other thing.<\/p>\n
Trying to get the same essential capability working across all of these different devices is always a learning experience. And at the end of the day, learning experiences are good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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