12 Mar 2007 0647H

Missed two articles last week

I wanted to mention two other articles that I was reading up on last week:

Richard Anderson made good mention of Checking Your Disciplines At the Door (When Beneficial). Good point. As Toyota shows, innovation comes often not from revolutionary breakthroughs but incremental evolutionary steps which come from any and all points of the company. At Viant, where Richard and I worked, I liked to think that we were trying to break down silos, since we as a company talked about it all the time. Perhaps we succeeded in a certain way, just being in an organization where creatives, technologists, and strategists were engaged at the same table. But it was early, in those days and we had not had the language to work with each other yet. The web was, after all, only a few years old. . . ah yes, those were the days. Gather round, children, let grampa tell you a story about crazy market valuations. . . .

By way of Henrik Olsen’s blog, the Interaction Designer’s Coffee Break, caught this design pattern post by Luke Wroblewski, on designing selection-dependent inputs. Pretty good article and timely for us too. Generally I don’t like to hide things from the consumer who will tend to be surprised unless their expectations are somehow managed that Something Will Happen, but where I am now, we use a lot of selection-dependent inputs, mostly as a way to compensate for space and poorly designed pageflow.

Kind of unhappy about the way this article capsule thing is going. Lots of good feedback, but, being manual and all, not convinced this is the best way, considering Digg, Delicious, so on. Since this is XML, there should be a way to strip the nodes and mash them up into a new more useful form. . . if anyone has a better tool out there, holla. And it better not be Mister Wong. Jeez. What were they thinking? Oh never mind.

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