February 2012
15 posts
Changing Existing Situations
52weeksofux:
“Everyone designs who devise courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones. The intellectual activity that produces material artifacts is no different fundamentally from the one that prescribes remedies for a sick patient or the one that devises a new sales plan for a company or a social welfare policy for a state. Design, so construed, is the core of...
On Improving Human Centered Design
You know how we used to have programmable VCRs? How many people could actually program the damn thing? The blinking 12:00:00 on the face of the VCR became kind of a cultural icon. We’ve essentially replaced that with computers. It’s far worse, because so many more people have to do so many more things with the computer than a VCR. And most of us don’t even have a choice. We have to use the...
Likes & Launch: Personality Test Says... →
steadyconscious:
likesandlaunch:
Adventurers are energetic, lively, and optimistic. They want to contribute to the world.
How to Get Along with Me * Give me companionship, affection, and freedom. * Engage with me in stimulating conversation and laughter. * Appreciate my grand visions and listen to my stories. * Don’t try…
Same for me… 7 points for #7 (Adventurer). 6 for #5...
“For decades, futurists have dreamed of the “universal book”: a handheld reading...”
– Steven Johnson on the rise of the tablet (via cacioppo)
“The future is already here — it’s just not very evenly distributed.”
– William Gibson (via ninedaysoff)
