Amar Sagoo

I’ve just released Tofu 3.1, an update to my text reader for the Mac.

Like many people, I like to have an idea of whether I’m phsically active enough to maintain my health.

There is no shortage of software metronomes in this world.

Tachyo is a new metronome for iOS.

When I joined Google in 2011, it felt like I was realising a dream.

I’ve just published a minor update to Licensed, my free app for storing software licenses.

Tofu started as an experiment 20 years ago.

In 2014, I announced that I was not planning further development of my Mac and iOS apps.

For the last 15 years or so, I’ve been using IMDb to look up how good movies are supposed to be.

I have a very high threshold for joining social networks, but I recently overcame this in a rare instance and finally started posting on Twitter.

Colour management is a pretty arcane subject to most people, even if it’s relevant to their work.

UPDATE – 1 July 2023: Tofu is still alive, with version 3.0 now available, and Licensed got an update too.

I never used to be particularly interested in designing mobile applications.

Tofu 2.0 was released yesterday, which allows reading simple PDF documents, has a less obtrusive full-screen mode, supports scrolling on MacBook trackpads and is a Universal Binary (that is, it includes a native build for Intel Macs).

The Handbook of Human–Computer Interaction, edited by Martin Helander, Thomas Landauer and Prasad Prabhu, is a book published in 1997 that attempts to summarise research relevant to the design of interactive software and hardware.

I have a thing about correct punctuation, and although I'm aware that most people would find me over-zealous in this regard, I would bring to my defence that it's not just a pointless obsession or a purely aesthetic matter.

For a few weeks now, my two team-mates at work and I have been using a “horizontal” whiteboard, lying across the desk surface between us.

There was once an appearance theme for Mac OS 8 and 9 called Neutech, by Flanksteak Design.

Sorry to be late by a week or so, but there are several reasons why I didn't get a Leopard-compatible update to Namely out sooner.

Douglas Coupland last night at the Bloomsbury theatre in London (at what he said was probably his last ever book reading): ...and someone said making a film about Helvetica is like making a film about off-white paint.

I love the feeling of getting to understand a seemingly abstract concept in intuitive, real-world terms.

On the subject of pie charts, information design god Edward Tufte has the following to say in The Visual Display of Quantitative Information: A table is nearly always better than a dumb pie chart […].

One of my pet peeves in web interfaces has always been that on radio buttons and checkboxes, only the small button itself is clickable.

I've just launched a redesign of my web site, which makes it the fifth version, if I recall correctly.

When I spent three months at Microsoft Research last year, I came across a lot of fascinating work related to interaction design.