This is from Chapter 7 of “The Design of Everyday Things” by Donald A. Norman:
Seven Principles for Transforming Difficult Tasks into Simple Ones
How does the designer go about the task? As I’ve argued the principles of design are straightforward:
1) Use both knowledge in the world and knowledge in the head
2) Simplify the structure of tasks
3) […]
When you examine social media how much of it is about connections or building a relationship and how much of it is a pure numbers game?
In the last couple of weeks I have gone to various social media sites and went on an adding spree just to see what would happen. Digg, Twitter, and Blog […]
In looking at Chapter Six of The Design of Everyday Things we begin to talk about the issues with being the designer.
One of the topics discussed is how the designer thinks that they are still a regular person and are designing based on what people want. However in reality the designer has been attached to […]
This weekend I read the new edition of Rolling Stone Magazine and the article The Machinery of Hope. The article talked about Obama’s use of social media as a tool in his campaign.
Really interesting read, check it out and let me know what you think.
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I want to look at specific part of chapter 5 in The Design of Everyday Things. This chapter focused on human error, how it happens, and how we need to examine it.
There was a paragraph that really stood out in my mind because the logic in it is so basic and the design is somewhat […]
In continuing my series on interface design I want to talk about chapter four of The Design of Everyday Things. Now this book isn’t strictly about designing web interfaces like the other book I am reading is, however this talks about design in general and gives the reader a lot of interesting things to think […]
Facebook launches an instant messaging service- Will this keep you on their site longer?
Building Twitter Following- Interesting reactions from different twitter users.
Using Social Media to Grow A Blog’s Readership- An excellent post from ProBlogger
AOL acquires Bebo.com for $850 Million- In case you haven’t heard
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I just saw the post on Youtube talking to Lacy about the interview. While the whole thing is overblown Lacy comes of as a… well frankly as an egotistical bitch. Some of the fault does fall on her shoulders… it wasn’t all on the audience. Plus when the audience does turn against you it […]
Apparently according to some people like Michael Arrington at TechCrunch the whole fiasco about the keynote address at SXSW was overblown. Here is the video of the interview:
I waited to see the interview before I got too excited over the fallout of the interview that I saw on twitter.
Yesterday I read cnet’s article about it […]
When I worked in the cell phone industry one of the metrics that was always talked about was the churn rate.
Here is a decent explanation of it from wikipedia:
In its broadest sense, churn rate is a measure of the number of individuals or items moving into or out of a collection over a specific period […]
How to use social networking to create brand recognition for your business, your product, or yourself.
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