March 2008
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Notes on "An Insurgence of Quality"
Last Tuesday I went to see Alan Cooper speak at at IxDA SF’s monthly meetup. His talk was a repeat of the keynote he gave at IxDA Interaction 08, “An Insurgence of Quality,” and deals with the trials of making high-quality software nowadays. According to Cooper, interaction designers are the ones to “lead the way out of the chaotic world of misdirected, misdesigned, and...
“That can be a hazardous procedure, which experts prefer to do only periodically,...”
– [ Taming a Reluctant Patient, from the Washington Post ] A “Gorilla Girl”?
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On Design Versus Customization
I saw three panels yesterday that all touched on the definition of design–always a tricky subject. Whether by design or simply because the ideas are in the ether, they complimented each other in a very pleasant way.
The first panel was Jared Spool’s “Magic and Mental Models: Using Illusion to Simplify Designs”. Spool has no angst about the meaning of design; his focus was on ways to keep the...
