If you're planning on such a project, you may want to check out Nicholas'
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If you really want to get granular, go nuts:
Daily question: Too much or not enough?
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An assertion was made to me that teens (specifically both genders age
12-18) are not adopting iPhones
Fortune/CNN:
Survey: 8% of U.S. teens own an iPhone; 22% want one
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We are more than a title.
One would never know from all this hair splitting over...titles.
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genius design day. But wait, I'm working at Google, forget design.
Is there any time left for...design?
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Each time a common set of themes emerged: organizational imbalance,
lack of shared understanding, resource constraints, and market
dynamics.
These apply pretty much to *all* disciplines, not just to design or its
sub-domains.
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If, whether through Gears or HTML5, FF, Opera and WebKit were to adopt even
half of this stuff on all desktop and mobile platforms (and I don't see much
to stop that), IE will have been largely dismantled. Even if it had 50%
global market share at that point.
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So why the backlash?
Because there's more to design than just the user.
It feels like a backlash against love songs, sandwiches or democracy.
There are horrible love songs, revolting sandwiches and atrocities committed
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(and
complexity) of a site (at all times) doesn't mean the user should.
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Just because a designer can create and see the architectural
completeness (and complexity) of a site (at all times) doesn't mean the user
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shares are
combined, I can easily see a day when WebKit based (Android, Safari,
Flash/AIR and even Nokia) plus Opera and Mozilla based browsers will surpass
IE based browsers by a significant margin. That can only be good news for
anybody but the IE bigots.
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that they are at the
mercy of partners. Good luck with that UX approach.
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If you have piss off your customers, you have no business.
Value - Tick
Usable - Tick
Delightful - Tick
Better than my alternatives - Tick
Stable - Tick
Secure - Tick
Friends rave about it - Tick
Microsoft called, they want the '90s back.
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The iPod Touch and the iPhone are cool and sexy, but are rubbish if
you want to play the next track when the player is in your pocket.
Which is why the Apple headsets have Send/End, Volume, Prev/Next
functionality built-in.
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to discuss how Meg Witman was sleep-walking in the last three
years of her tenure at eBay, I'd be glad to.
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to create the largest social network. If you
don't think that's going to make FB shareholders happy one day, then just
ignore it.
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to get acquired unless you have scale. So
your ability to get to that big payday is directly proportional to your
ability to scale. FB has scale. You do the math.
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in it. Separating business success from shareholder success is so
much gobbledygook, I'm afraid.
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narrowly
stuck in FB-as-an-independent-company model, whereas Google may have far
different ambitions with FB.
You're seemingly blind to network effects, which is at the heart of many
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countervailing force.
And we are talking about the success of the company, not the profiteering
of the founders.
When has investors getting a return on their investments become
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is a failure?
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wasn't killed by
resizing, and is more ergonomic because of its location near the scroll
bar.
More importantly, since 2001, the (default) availability of horizontal real
estate in the browser viewport went from 600 to 800 to 1000+.
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I do think that Facebook has yet to produce a meaningful business model.
And this is a huge problem.
Wasn't for YouTube. Or Skype. Or MySpace. Etc.
Looking for multimillion-dollar pay-off problems?
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some of that
fad to make my life to come together like that.
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that we have today.
And I'm not aware of any desktop or AIR apps that can do that, without using
Google or something similar.
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to buy, it
doesn't do public concept products, like Cuil, as I explained in:
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the attention of cool folks at
Cuil.
Fail, written all over.
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choice in All results and with a
pure web focus) went.
Puzzle over the grouping algo.
Then ponder on how long it would take Google to do the same IF they thought
they needed it.
Scratch head and try to pronounce the name of the service.
Cool, innit? ;-)
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Apple has an old patent on another virtual/physical I/O concept:
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of competition, if a company doesn't have
sufficient differentiation, it's dead meat.
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What are the criteria that would be a program good
#1: Will it get me my first job?
#2: Will it get me a higher paying job?
#3: Will it get me a more satisfying job?
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to fast changing workplace demands,
Fact: many degreed but ineffectual designers have been spotted in the wild,
Fact: so have non-degreed but excellent designers.
Conclusion: It's silly to set these rules and expectations without
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proposition by introducing
cross-platform, common-denominator UIs and interaction patterns to be
mingled with Apple's carefully orchestrated multi-touch approach. So what
does that leave Adobe with?
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did cite the specific *law* that specifically bans email list
participation. It's of course not a matter of legal disputation as to
what's reasonable or theoretical exposure, it's all automatically
presumed knowledge, which cannot possibly be acquired any other way.
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That's what's out of line.
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they don't need to think through and solve problems, if they
are not forced to.
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not smart
business. Patents are public for a reason.
Please show some courtesy.
I would when your corporate convenience doesn't trample upon the right
of others to discuss issues they deem important, and when the
arrogance with which this has been presented here is reconsidered.
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, licensing them.
Unless one's involved in specific cases of reverse engineering,
avoidance of patent knowledge is really not very smart. Innovative
products are not designed by starting with a focus on patent knowledge
avoidance.
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There are no laws against suing ostriches.
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incentivized lawyer can sue you for
walking down the street, as well as burying your head in the sand.
Same billable hours.
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, but that may be an
observation requiring another century to reach some of the developers
out there.
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Yes, about two dozen dead kittens.
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Anybody want to add some more terms to the equation?
Design is design?
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places, by Wall Street journal/All Things Digital:
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by shareholders to
smithereens.
Now, he's promising an enlarged iPhone sandwich at $75, targeted to,
for all we know, 500 million users.
How does one take any of this seriously?
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If it's standards-compliant and semantically structured AND attractive and
functional, it works.
MySpace.
Can 117 million people be wrong?
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While I am not a usability expert, the topic is certainly a focus while
doing my job as an experience lead.
How can you be an experience lead without being a usability expert?
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interesting also to note that the inspiration for Woodland's
barcode was movie soundtracks and Morse code.
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or let's clean up the
home page level are woefully inadequate to remedy what's essentially
a business strategy question, where design practitioners aren't
currently asked to get involved in.
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commitment to
Apple.
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bidding war may be Apple's second (or
perhaps third) round strategy, starting with the next version of the
iPhone.
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easily have been a 'fact
finding' mission for example, as opposed to a 'bidding war' Apple
wasn't quite prepared to play at the time.
I don't know if you'd call this 'losing'. I just call it a business
strategy that didn't quite pan out.
: -) Please see above.
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the presence of Java and Flash corrupted the baseline understanding?
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That said, there's a thin line between intent and ability (to make
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IBM, Microsoft, SAP, etc just have a
different business model, as reflected in their non-strategic design
efforts.
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opponent's rules. So unless and until the
CEO/management is questioned and challenged on strategy, nothing is
going to change. Any other discussion would at best be at the margins.
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. If that's isn't
reframing design, I wouldn't know what is. (Until, of course, a bank
CEO who's just written off $20 billion to bad debt enlightens me,
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, industry-leading industrial design labs,
three-decade long design culture, willingness to take risks, etc.
There's no guarantee that Apple will win this game, but it's certainly
theirs to lose, as I argue in the article.
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aren't in the habit of (or capable of)
thinking. The sad truth is that the majority of designers don't have
much managerial or financial experience and those (non-designers) who
do have them are oblivious to design sense and sensibilities.
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double standard whereby designers are
called to justify their existence where as
CEOs/accountants/lawyers/etc are not. This is aggravated by the notion
that a few courses on 'design thinking' can be grafted onto an MBA to
obviate designers/design.
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business
http://counternotions.com/2007/10/10/managing-design/
The new managerial class: cure for design?
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Compartmentalized design: Designers emasculated
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Computerworld. Forrester. Report.
That pretty much settles that!
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Goal. I'd say
that they just did exactly that.
For years, car manufacturers have been setting 'Big Hairy Goals' with
nothing to show for in actually shipping products. How's Nokia
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In need of hiring a bunch of folks: developers, UI engineers,
analytics specialists, process modelers, BAs, etc. Anyone know of a
really good technical recruiter who serves the West Coast region? (If
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of CSS. I touch
just the tip of it here:
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For those of you interested in the design of user experience and
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iPod and Kindle and the reason why the Kindle is not going to take
off like the iPod did.
Exactly right.
There are several likely scenarios this fundamental barrier could
have been alleviated by Amazon, but they chose not to deal
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[There is a] common perception that a sales guy can sell
*anything*, be it cars or jeans or computerware. This view holds that
the domain of business is not determinant, the process is. You learn
the process (at business school), you're good to go.
As the inadequacy of this approach is exposed we
I examined some of the questions involved in 'design thinking' here:
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If what designers want is more power to decide on some of the
fundamental problems their organizations face,
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