Christina, At the risk of pushing the off-topic thing too far, I read Atul Gawande's "Complications" a couple of years ago and it was indeed excellent but I confess to being surprised that it might have been highly relevant to design (or rather that I missed that ;-)).
Would you mind elaborating just a little on that? I remember reading it for general interest (at the same time as Mary Roach's marvellous "Stiff": I think I must have been having a mortality check) and I'm wondering now if I need to take a second look! Thx, Mike ------------------- Mike Padgett www.mikepadgett.com ------------------- >Yes. Outliers is good also. If you love these, try "Better" and >Complications" by Gladwell's pal Atul Gawnde. HIGHLY relevant to design, >despite being about medicine. > >On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Angel Marquez <angel.marq...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Is 'The Tipping Point' as good as 'Blink'? >> >> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Robert Hoekman Jr <rob...@rhjr.net> wrote: >> >> > > >> > > Wilken's Law: >> > > The effectiveness of research is inversely proportional to the >> > > thickness of its binding. >> > > >> > >> > I couldn't agree more. In fact, Gladwell's book Blink even backs up this >> > idea. >> > >> > Back to the topic now ... >> > >> > -r- >> > ________________________________________________________________ >> > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! >> > To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org >> > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe >> > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines >> > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help >> > >> ________________________________________________________________ >> Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! >> To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org >> Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe >> List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines >> List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help >> >________________________________________________________________ >Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! >To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org >Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe >List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines >List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
