The App Standing at Platform Two


Let no-one imagine that there's nothing going on here, as currently we (and that's the Royal We, as it's way above my pay-grade) are investigating various build platforms to enable a beta-product to be assembled. Coding is, thankfully, more a drag-and-drop exercise than ever.

Our target is a user experience that is more of a joy than having to recall something like mE+iDlw@ltrl?RA4&0e_ (thank you Norton, we love it) or else copy-and-paste it to a sticky as I do, or let the password manager do the filling in for you in the hope you'll never lose a device and its passcode.

Of late I've been investigating the ergonomics of people-carrying drones, involving the consideration of the size of stuff like your ass... not your's personally you understand?

Now I'm at the finger-tip level, and in the way our thumbs made Blackberrys a thing, the scope of our tiny touches now controls our lives.

I like the tic-tac-toe keypad of nine faces, not least because I came up with it (and I recall hearing how the inventors of the ATM were tasked with coming up with a layout that we could all love).

As we examine the prospects for subbing the passcode screen on tablets, in the first instance, my feeling is that we should double that display up to eighteen blocks so as to exploit the portrait format of such screens.

That may be an upper and lower gallery of nine images from each of which you pick a familiar face...

... or at may be a half-dozen rows from each of which you have to select a picture.

I won't essay the odds on that right now, but it would still be among the least popular rounds in Squid Game.

P.S. Are you one of those pictured here? If so, contact us at colin@bloxlox.com for a chance to win a squid.

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