“Apple is an excellent example of building an organization, from products to market, around the people who will participate in the experience. Particularly for graphic designers and other creative types who grew up appreciating Apple but perhaps being unfamiliar with what marketing is and how it works, Apple Computer, Inc. is a textbook case of a company successfully identifying the needs of their market and participants.” (Dirk Knemeyer – Thread Inc.)

“Wouldn’t we all have an easier time of it if we worked together to create a paradigm shift in terms of how corporations work? Or what they value? If we did that, maybe the resulting shift would create more work than we all could actually do!” (Beth Mazur – IDblog)

“(…) a tool designed to let every individual manage all of their information in the way that makes the most sense to them. By removing the arbitrary barriers created by applications only handling certain information ‘types’, and recording only a fixed set of relationships defined by the developer, we aim to let users define whichever arrangements of, connections between, and views of information they find most effective. Such personalization of information management will dramatically improve each individual’s ability to find what they need when they need it.” (MIT Laboratory for Computer Science) – courtesy of antenna

A Sampler (Norbert Küpper)

“Pie menus show a certain superiority over the ubiquitous linear menus we are so fond of. Why arenít they proliferated more showing up only on some applications?” (Juan C. Dürsteler – Inf@Vis!)

“The idea behind captology is simple: computers (and other technological devices) can be used to persuade people to do things.” (William Grosso – O’Reilly Network)

“A major shift is occurring in relation to who is in charge of the Web. Previously, responsibility tended to be with IT. Occasionally, marketing was in charge. Today, the website, particularly the intranet, is the responsibility of the communications department. This is as it should be.” (Gerry McGovern)