Why can’t we make things easier?
OK. So sometimes we shouldn’t make things too easy. But other times, we make things too goddamned hard when the process should be simple. I was telling yo...
Category: Strategy
When not to make something too easy
I sometimes hand folks I know one of our high-end phones to see what they do with them. All too often, I see folks with amazing devices and they are quite conte...
Great discussion on use and design in Twitter
Twitter intrigues me. I stumbled upon an amazing article (link below) dissecting Twitter and introducing me to Twitterific, a separate ‘widget’ to i...
Cost cost cost.
All right. I’m an now fully in the camp of ‘WTF are the operators thinking?’. A few years back, I was uploading a few videos and it kept faili...
An appreciation for the craftsman
I don’t remember where I heard this phrase (in the title), but it’s one of those phrases that made it onto my list of interesting things to think ab...
Anyone play with Me.dium?
I’m on to something. You know when you think or say something and then, out of the blue, someone tells you either that someone recently said the same thin...
What is urgent for you when on the move?
Another question from that workshop. Don’t remember how I answered it. Don’t even remember the context. But, I thought I’d just throw it out t...
What does ‘travel light’ mean to you?
Heh. We had a workshop where this was one of the questions.* I’ve been trying to travel light ever since I ‘replaced’ my laptop with a PalmV, ...
Tyranny of the desktop metaphor?
I was thinking about interaction interfaces, precipitated by the discussions here at work around the Apple iPhone touch UI. Apple has had a touch UI for their l...
Research firm Dell’Oro on: Weaker voice will hold back WiMax
I think this is a load of krap. Does anyone know how well VoIP (or Skype) would work on WiMAX? If something like Skype works well, then voice quality would be e...