I am not sure that productivity should be the litmus test of the
business case. Not only would hard it be hard to demonstrate
productivity, it wouldn't address core issues of quality.
The best reason to use a Mac is that MS Windows is dull and
uninspiring. Ditto for Visio. Maybe Microsoft will
that isn't easy to get, but if you
are motivated, you might find the effort worthwhile.
Michael Andrews
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I find this silly. What am I supposed to click on? It is a treasure
hunt, which assumes I am interested in other people's spewing of
random thoughts to begin with -- which I am not.
Treasure hunts only work when there's a treasure to find. I just
see a bunch of orange circles with innane
As we head into a new depression, I find myself attracted to some
titles published during the anything-is-possible days of the dot.com
bubble. Somehow design has in recent years got demoted to being
simply cool and essential, rather than transformative.
I like Peter Small's The Entrepreneurial
People aren't consistent, why do we expect interactive software
always to be so?
One attitude I notice is what I will call product egotism. Design
critics imagine people are obsessively focused on how every part of a
creation behaves, then experience a mental meltdown when the mental
model they
I think of habits as routine behaviors, often done daily. Some of
the things previously mentioned seem morerelated to personality or
skills.
When I read about the lives of my personal design heroes (none of
whom are IxDers) I notice several habits come up again and again.
Some of these things
I've never done research on this, so can't say what most people
want, but my personal perference (always dangerous to base decisions
on) is to open the PDF in the browser.
Most PDFs are rubbish in terms of content. Users don't care to save
them, and don't want to have to delete a saved copy from
Jaiku, now owned by Google, has presence based indictors, which like
IM lets users broadcast their availability and see the availability
of their contacts.
While GPS has got most attention with location based services, there
has been much exploration of short range communication of
availability
A big source of confusion is equating what you can do as being the
same as what you know. Many people will advocate devoting all your
energies into creating a portfolio so you can demostrate you can do
certain things. Showing is always powerful, but has its limits.
In my experience, what you
