Archive for February, 2006

The Secret to Great Design, or On Cohabitation With Bees While in a Bonneted State

Tuesday, February 21st, 2006

The secret behind great* Design** is to apply simple common sense***.
The challenge is taking what is common sense to one person and making it common to many.
This sounds difficult, but is much simpler than taking the unique sense of many and trying to derive a common filter.
I’ve said it [...]

The Show Must Go On Even for Steve Jobs

Monday, February 20th, 2006

Found a funny video via the local Apple store clipping the “when things go wrong” aspects of many of Steve Jobs’ presentations over the past few years.
Having been on stage a number of times, I can say I’ve reacted the gamut of ways. Total freeze. Anger. Roll with it. The latter [...]

Web 2 — Usability Sins

Monday, February 20th, 2006

I am always a sucker for mini rants on usability issues I run into as a user of this “web” thing I keep hearing about. Nice to see others are too.
A post last week on Google Blogoscoped, by Philipp Lenssen, entitled Usability Sins 2.0 caught my eye. But what really interested me was [...]

SXSW: Back On

Sunday, February 19th, 2006

Bah. So far it’s been like this:
Going to SXSW as of last October. Not going as of late November. Yes going for two days in December. Not going since December until last night.
Many things changed in relation to the reasons I would go to SXSW. One of the biggest reasons [...]

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