A quick preview of Don Norman’s next work “Design of Future Things”, looks intriguing in the 1st chapter itself. He discusses the idiom of interaction between human and smart systems that are going to have a lot of work delegated to, in the years to come.
His unique insights about human behavioral dispositions with respect to [...]
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Two Monologues Do not Make a Dialogue: Preview of Norman’s “Design of Future Things”
Posted in Book Review, Design Theory, Design method, Interaction Design, Pervasive systems, Philosophy, User Experience, design, tagged AI, Artificial Intelligence, design, Design of Future Things, Don Norman, Don norman book, HCI, Human, Human Computer Interaction, Human Machine Interaction, Intelligent Systems, Interaction, Robot, Smart, Systems on April 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Document Format War: Who’s Listening to Those Rants from Users!
Posted in Business, Philosophy, Technology for masses, User Experience, tagged Access, Data, Debate, Democracy, design, Digital, Document, Document Standard, Exchange, Exclusion, Format, Format War, Information, Migration, ODF, Open Source, OXML, Standard on April 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The recent debate on the open data standards (between OXML, proposed by Microsoft and ODF from Sun and IBM) has generated many interesting response worldwide particularly from the ‘open source’ proponents. In the age of social protocols for information exchanges & service oriented architecture, this discussion seems more relevant than anything else. Typically in a [...]
Office Nomads and Exo-Workers
Posted in CSCW, Enterprise, UCD, User Experience, tagged Collaboration, Computing, CSCW, employee, Etelos, Nomadic, Office, Office 2.0, Sharepoint, virtual, work, Zoho on March 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
10 years ago the physical space had lost its relevance to the digital network. Today work-’places’ are again moving out into the physical and virtual ’smart spaces’. Today’s global workforces have a very different conception about workspaces, ‘own or shared’ resources; ‘physical or remote’ presence; ‘just-in-time’ or ‘anywhere-anytime’ accesses or own office vs. client [...]




