In talking with people at events and with prospective clients, I mention the importance of visual interface design when building software and I hear similar responses: “What is the ROI of ‘great design’?” and “What does it mean to me? I just need to have an application that works.” This …
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December 6, 2010
Re: “The Office Not the Best Place For Work?”
I just saw one by Jason Fried (TEDx Midwest), in which he contends that work is not a good place to get work done. Jason describes a pain that everyone who works in an office has had at one time or another. I believe he has some excellent points, but I have to take issue with his central theory that meetings and managers (what he calls M&M’s) are the root cause of the problem.
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July 28, 2010
Managing personal information – can we even trust ourselves?
Don Tapscott’s excellent post on why transparency and privacy should go hand in hand was right on the money, but a few aspects of managing access to sensitive personal information were not addressed in his article. This article takes his thoughts a bit further, and examines the risk of entrusting – even to ourselves – the dissemination of our personal information to others.
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July 15, 2010
Innovation For Its Own Sake?
I fell victim to bright and shiny thinking years ago, when I adopted C++ as the new and improved way of doing things. It was, as I’d heard it, the much better C. No questions asked. Never mind that it had only been around a year or two. Pretty soon …
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June 16, 2010
Why the iPad Matters #2
It is just a possibility at this point. But it is worth asking: if the iPad becomes another touchstone device, what can we foretell about that success? Why will the iPad have succeeded? How will it have succeeded? And most importantly, who will have won and lost with it?
