Jon Hicks

http://www.hicksdesign.co.uk/

Jon Hicks is highly regarded web and print designer based in Oxford. Jon is most widely known for his personal website - Hicksdesign - where he regularly writes about web standards, CSS and browsers.

As well as producing a range of successful browser resources, Jon has also produced logos for Firefox and Thunderbird. Towards the end of 2008 he joined Opera Software as Senior Designer.

Quite simply, the apps I use the most go on the home screen, which tend to be for when I’m travelling.

• Tweetie and Mail are where I spend most of my time. Twitter has practically become a second Mail client to me.
• Wikipanion, because I’m always looking something up - whether it be something I don’t recognise on a menu, or a building I’m visiting
• Air sharing is where I keep all my travel documents like PDFs of flight information and maps
• Maps is great for travelling, especially with the compass facility in the 3G S
• Clock because I use the alarm a lot
• Rolando 2, because the Rolando series are my favourite iPhone games.
• Pano to create panoramic images on the fly.
• Remote and Boxee for controlling the Apple TV (hacked to launch Boxee)
• I’m currently experimenting with Tumblr’s mobile blogging capabilities, and its iPhone app is wonderful. It even allows voice recording.

I used to have strict layouts, such as all camera apps in a row, but nowadays I don’t. I just know where to find the most used apps, and anything off the home screen is found with the 3.0 search facility.