Experience-Is-King
Two Monologues Do not Make a Dialogue: Preview of Norman’s “Design of Future Things”
A quick preview of Don Norman’s next work "Design of Future Things", looks intriguing in the 1st chapter itself. He discusses the idiom of interaction between human and smart systems that are going to have a lot of work delegated to, in the years to come. His unique insights about human behavioral dispositions with [...]
Document Format War: Who’s Listening to Those Rants from Users!
The recent debate on the open data standards (between OXML, proposed by Microsoft and ODF from Sun and IBM) has generated many interesting response worldwide particularly from the ‘open source’ proponents. In the age of social protocols for information exchanges & service oriented architecture, this discussion seems more relevant than anything else. Typically in a [...]
Unbundling for innovation: An Essay by Phil Agre, UCLA
A few years back I came across a very interesting article by Phil Agre , Associate Professor of Information Studies at UCLA. I liked that article so much that I kept in my mail box for about 6 years until I discovered it a few days ago.
He talked about a very interesting anti establishment approach [...]