Funny ha-ha
Nielsen gets an amusing taste of his own medicine in Design by Fire's Design eye for the usability guy. Nice job, all concerned. [via [Airbag][]]
- 25.5.2004, 13.42
- File under: link, design, usability, satire
Nielsen gets an amusing taste of his own medicine in Design by Fire's Design eye for the usability guy. Nice job, all concerned. [via [Airbag][]]
I've recently been re-reading (actually, reading from start to finish for the first time) Philip 'Vermeer's Camera' Steadman's The Evolution of Designs. The book is about biological analogy in design, focussing on architecture and industrial design. At work I've been gazing into the content production and management abyss, and I've been doing more thinking about web design. This post is the collision between those things, and some of the earlier thinking I did for my dissertation (which I'll try to get around to properly putting up on the site, with its images).
First, a disclaimer: The events in this despatch do in fact precede the events in the previous one. I know this is strange but I don't really care.
A discussion of why I've done what I've done, and the point I'm trying to make (and maybe even prove).
I was lucky enough to be at Reboot 10, back at the end of June. I gave a prototype talk working through some ideas I've been thinking about for a while (stuff that I started to work at with my Everything I know about Programming I learnt from Typography talk at the first BarCamp London). The talk was called Craft & Process, and was essentially a braindump and not a real talk - I had a bunch of sketchy notes for an overall structure and talked my way from the start of the notes tothe end...