What's on Your Plate?
On the photo-sharing site Instagram, a ridiculously large number photos posted are of the ones of the food its users are eating! Insane, right? And so everytime the site goes down, the Internet humour has a field day. A few samples: “Instagram is down! Such a shame because I'm hungry but now there's no point in eating until it is back up.” And “Well, there's no point in ordering dessert now.” My 3 year old thinks food is for playing, smearing, splashing, anything but eating…soon she’ll be adding posting it on social media to her list (sigh). Scott Adams found a use of this tendency when he wrote his blog on the “broken” smartphone/iPad interface . But first, what’s his problem exactly? “If you were to design a smartphone interface from scratch, without any legacy issues, would it look like a bunch of app icons sitting on a home screen? No. Because that would be stupid. Would you want your users to be hunting around for the right app every time they want to d...