Autor: Tim Strehle

Laura Klein – Pain Driven Design: „You see, no matter how much you love your product, unless it’s perfect, it’s causing pain to somebody. I’m sure it’s not on purpose. You’re not a monster. But something about your product is confusing or hard to use, and it’s driving at least one of your customers nuts.…

Eric Ries – Learning is better than optimization (the local maximum problem): „It takes some getting used to for most designers, though. They are not generally used to having their designs evaluated by their real-world impact. Remember that plenty of design organizations and design schools give out awards for designing products that never get built.…

Todd Lappin – A 2.5 Year-Old Uses an iPad for the First Time: „My iPhone-savvy 2.5 year-old daughter held an iPad for the very first time last night, and it turned out to be an interesting user-interface experiment.“ (Via John Muellerleile.)

Marc Hedlund at O’Reilly Radar – The iPad and computing’s middle ground: „I have to wonder where we’ll see iPads a few months or years from now. I bet some of the places they’ll show up aren’t yet obvious. […] Would you carry a laptop around a soccer field? Would you want to track game…

Tim Bray – What’s New in Tablets: „Speed Is A Feature · For a 1Ghz device with limited memory, the iPad is unreasonably fast. I suspect this accounts for a whole bunch of the “Wow!” reaction the iPad obviously provokes.“

David Strom – How friends help friends on the Internet: The Ross Greenberg Story: „Then, early this year, the marriage crumbled, and he found himself in a nursing home, confined to a motorized wheelchair, his computer left behind, without even a phone of his own. While his mind was still clear, he was cut off…

Stephen Fry at TIME – The iPad Launch: Can Steve Jobs Do It Again?: „It is possible that the public will not fall on the iPad, as I did, like lions on an antelope. Perhaps they will find the apps and the iBooks too expensive. Maybe they will wait for more fully featured later models.…

Clay Shirky – The Collapse of Complex Business Models: „Some video still has to be complex to be valuable, but the logic of the old media ecoystem, where video had to be complex simply to be video, is broken. Expensive bits of video made in complex ways now compete with cheap bits made in simple…

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Theresa Regli at CMS Watch – Core application versus corollary applications in DAM: „Where the confusion often starts is when, as is often the case with DAM products, #2 [the external or „self-service“ application] looks completely different from #1 [the „core“ application]. This is where it’s important to note that most DAM products are a…