I wonder whether the women’s anger is a reaction to the mayor’s crudeness or a standard response by monopolists who are threatened with competition.
Mark Rahner of the Seattle Times describes Ahsoka Tano as ‘a tiny girl with huge eyes and a tube-top who looks like a slutty Disney character.’
Google’s Web Analytics guru Avinash Kaushik asserts that one of the reasons why so many websites “suck” today is because of the hippo — as in the “highest paid person’s opinion.
…they ran out of products that people actually need - so now they think up new “needs,” invent products to fulfill them, and manipulate consumers to form habits around the product.
Users do not know what interface they want. Users do not know what features they want. Users know the tasks they want to do, and the problems they have. We learn more by watching the user work than by asking the user. The job of the UI designer is to provide what the users need, not what the users say they need. It is to make tasks easier, not to provide features.
When you listen to what your users are telling you instead of what they’re saying, you have the opportunity to incorporate improvements that still fit into your vision of your product.”
“Just watching someone play my game and see them learn from their mistakes was an incredible experience.
There’s much concern today about the child who is overprotected and overaccommodated, overscheduled and overindulged — in short, the overprivileged child. What those children are missing, however, is the ultimate childhood privilege: time to waste.
…the “PDF” button sits there on every Print dialogue, easily missed.
Bad design is where the customer thinks it’s their fault that something doesn’t work. So if you can’t make your GPS device work in your car — I mean, there should be a riot because they’re so poorly designed! Instead, the user thinks, ‘Oh, I’m not very smart, I can’t make this GPS thing work.’ People should demand more from the things they own, they need to demand that things work.
