Archive for September 2006

30 Sep 2006 0852H

Taking notes the Cornell way

It’s about time someone redesigned notetaking, which is famously bad all around. Most of us have reinforced bad notetaking habits all the way from high school and college and have kept on and on and on. It’s not like there’s a book for it, and even if there was, what would you do? Take bad [...]

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29 Sep 2006 1205H

Japanese interface design tip

… for the day when we design products to be used in Japan. From Peter Payne, proprietor of J-List, a purveyor of porn and exotic orientalia from Japan to lonely westerners:
The shape of a circle nearly always means “yes” or “good” in Japan, which causes an interesting problem: many electronics from the U.S. have a [...]

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23 Sep 2006 0921H

Donating/Recycling Computers, Pt 2

For Chicagoland residents (why is it that we never call ourselves Chicagolanders?), I’m investigating the possibility of 15 years of computing artifacts, a few 286s, two monitors, some dot matrix printers, an old 3-pass scanner, the remnants of rebuilds and upgrades via this organization, GiveAComputer.Org. . . will keep you posted on how this [...]

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22 Sep 2006 0825H

Agile User Experience

Caught this article on agile methods and user experience on Spool’s UIE site, and I was reminded of this by Lou Rosenfeld at his recent Chicago seminar: “we should be trying to get away from phases.” Agile methodologies have been center-stage for some time now, but it’s taken a while to get creatives, especially those [...]

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22 Sep 2006 0820H

Cool umbrellas

With Fall upon us, it’s time again to break out the umbrellas.
Tibor Kalman/MoMA umbrellaFrankford “Blade Runner” umbrellaFrankford Clear umbrellaTray6 Grass umbrellaDavid Rose’s Ambient Devices UmbrellaCTA UmbrellaNew York Transit UmbrellaBright Night Umbrella

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21 Sep 2006 1621H

AT&T Yahoo DSL and MobiTV

So, a week or two ago, there was this news story about how AT&T was going to offer its co-branded Yahoo DSL customers the opportunity to access cable TV content via broadband through the MobiTV online service. And they said there would be all these channels and that new ones would be added as it [...]

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20 Sep 2006 0934H

Digital convergence is here, it’s happening

I was reminded of this recently. . . Aside from Tivo still holding on somehow, first, Steve Jobs unveiled their settop box, iTV, which isn’t even “done” yet, but, just the fact they felt strongly enough about it to show to the public speaks volumes.
That, as I’d said in a previous post, is tied [...]

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16 Sep 2006 1328H

While reading up on Jared Spool

I ran into this paragraph from him on another blog talking about American cars. My friends on another blog have noticed my newfound interest in cars, mostly because I want to buy one and because I think it speaks volumes about the state of American design and manufacturing. Anyway, it reads,
Most businesses don’t have this [...]

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15 Sep 2006 2222H

On Zune. Or Whatever.

According to PC World’s Harry McCracken, Microsoft’s Zune has been revealed. But there is a caveat.
Will Zune work? To me, this is in some ways the bottom line. I’ve tried a bunch of services and devicess that use various Microsoft music technologies, and their track record for simply working well enough that I can listen [...]

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14 Sep 2006 1649H

Enterprise IA Seminar with Lou Rosenfeld

Wow. Long, long day, but I feel a lot less overwhelmed about the whole thing. . . going to decrypt 8 hrs of notes down now. . . Hell yeah it was worth the money. There was just so much knowledge handed down. Tomorrow, Steve Krug.
Oh yeah, also, had my first lunch at the [...]

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