Stupid Machines: a UX design technique
Consider the following stupid machines:
1. machine that runs into corners at high speed and yelps upon impact
2. goes up against a person’s leg, looks up at them, and smirks
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Arvind Venkataramani
Wise metrics
Propositions on sensibly making use of metrics when designing things: (for mathematically minded people)
Axioms:
1. Those metrics matter, which matter to the people the metrics are supposedly helping serve
2. Those metrics
Asking good questions: the difference between Trend-hunting & Foresight
A friend forwarded me these 10 questions from an ad agency that runs a 'global scout network', soliciting opinions on '10 key elements of Culture' (to be answered, btw,
Ancient bugs in PowerPoint
As a researcher, I create a lot of PowerPoint documents - apart from its ubiquity in the professional knowledge worker world, it has decent visual editing tools and its one-page-at-a-time
6 degrees of inclusivity
Just realized if that the 6 degrees of separation hypothesis is true, someone like me is only 6 links away from my polar opposite person (e.g. a militaristic rural religious fundamentalist).
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