David Kaneda

http://www.davidkaneda.com/

David Kaneda has over eight years of experience designing in a variety of fields, from architecture and fashion to education and software. He is the primary developer of jQTouch, a Javascript framework for iPhone development. David also maintains WebKitBits, a site about the browser engine in Safari, Google Chrome, and the iPhone. David currently serves as creative director at Ext, and is responsible for the look and feel of Ext’s websites, software, and community engagement.

My iPhone is running 4.0, so it uses a background image — I’m currently using this excellent one from Marcelo Marfil. It’s important to find something dark and low contrast for this. With the apps, there’s something I like about keeping the home screen pretty default. That said, you’ve obviously got to break out here and there:

Facebook — I tried taking this off my homescreen, but Facebook wouldn’t let me.

Things — The best to do app I’ve used to date, my only complaint being its dire, dire need for a cloud-based syncing method (I also use on my laptop and iPad).

Tumblr — I run quite a few blogs on Tumblr, the biggest being 9-bits, WebKitBits, and Ext, so it’s nice to be able to check in on notes and comments pretty easily.

In regard to the organization of apps: The first row is mostly communication, with the exception of Things — I explicitly set Tweetie and Things to be top-right as their my most active apps hitting and I find top right easiest to hit with my thumb when holding the phone (a bit anal, I know). The second row is Date/time and Photos. Third row is writing and live info, last row are the two stores. The dock is totally default.

I’d feel remiss if I didn’t also mention just a few of my favorites past this screen as well, like Gowalla, Ego, Boxcar, and iTeleport.