Archive for February 2008

03 Feb 2008 0924H

Motorola may get out of cellphone biz

Read this in the Trib the other day. Given how hard this stuff is to do, it isn’t surprising that they lost their way. I was cautiously optimistic when their ex-CEO Ed Zander said the way forward was more RAZRs, but, because their culture is both behind and unlike Apple’s, Motorola failed to fix existing [...]

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01 Feb 2008 0652H

Do away with OK/Cancel, build better Undos

Was reminded of this in a conversation with a front end dev yesterday. Instead of the modal dialog box OK/Cancel which, some allege, lulls people into a kind of cognitive black hole, we should have better Undo actions. Here’s an old, but well written column on better undos from Salon.com (2000).

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01 Feb 2008 0636H

Observations on working with stakeholders

Sorry, been busy ramping up at my new gig, but, I was recently reminded of something a pretty smart guy, Ahmed Sako, once told me when I was working in New York: we are all eventually going to be technologists, someday. And he was right: in our line of work, any business is inevitably going [...]

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