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Changing Lives Through Technology

Added on 7 April 2004 Peter Bogaards
“David Nagel, CEO of PalmSource, talks about his work at NASA, Apple and AT&T, and gives examples of success and failure in human factors design. (…) The fundamental problem is that if the underlying system model incorporates abstractions that are difficult for normal human beings to understand, it’s always, always going to behave in unpredictable and non-understandable ways to them.” (ACM Ubiquity)

Didier Hilhorst Speaks

Added on 24 March 2004 Peter Bogaards
“Colors and design are direct interface features. In my opinion the level of attractiveness directly affects ease-of-use, enjoyment and usefulness. A good website, as opposed to just a usable website, should seamlessly blend accessibility, usability and aesthetic quality.” (skinnyj) – courtesy of nick finck

The Visual Language of PowerPoint: Q&A with Bob Horn

Added on 12 February 2004 Peter Bogaards
“Are we at the verge of the creation of a new global verbal-visual language? In 1998 political scientist and Stanford scholar Robert Horn released ‘Visual Language: Global Communication for the 21st Century’, a ‘must-read’ for anyone who communicates with words and images, and an important roadmap for any serious PowerPoint practitioner.” (Cliff Atkinson – Sociable Media) – courtesy of ben hyde

Louis Rosenfeld: The InfoDesign interview

Added on 3 February 2004 Peter Bogaards
“(..) fields like IA and concepts like UX really are new. Certainly the work itself isn’t new, but a conscious understanding of them is. Consciousness is a prerequisite for just about everything else in life. So when we’re feeling our most frustrated with our clients, our bosses, our colleagues and peers, and the economic harshness of recent years, we have to remember that this is all new, that levels of consciousness are rising, things are get tingbetter, and that it remains an extremely exciting time to be working as a designer of any stripe.” (Dirk Knemeyer – InfoDesign: Understanding by Design)

A conversation with Alan Kay: Dynabook Revisited

Added on 25 January 2004 Peter Bogaards
“Literacy is not just about being able to read street signs or medicine labels. It means being able to deal in the world of ideas. In a democratic society you need people to be in conversational contact with the important ideas of the past and of the present, which means being able to read about them and write about them and talk about them. (…) Because the music is not inside the piano.” (Squeakland essays)

Don Norman on PowerPoint Usability

Added on 7 January 2004 Peter Bogaards
“PowerPoint is NOT the problem. The problem is bad talks, and in part, this comes about because of so many pointless meetings, where people with – or without – a point to make – have to give pointless talks. The problem is that it is difficult work to give a good talk, and to do so, the presenter has to have learned how to give talks, has to have practiced, and has had to have good feedback about the quality of the talks – the better to improve them.” (Cliff Atkinson – Sociable Media) – courtesy of xblog

Stuart Weibel interviews Tim Berners-Lee

Added on 9 December 2003 Peter Bogaards
“The benefit of the Web is proportional to the number of connections – links – to related information. Just as the Web evolved rapidly as people recognized this and acted independently to launch Web servers, this same network effect will bring people together around common semantic standards as they come to realize the enhanced value of their data and information in the context of a truly Semantic Web.” (Online Computer Literacy Center) – courtesy of peter van dijck

Humanity will survive information deluge

Added on 7 December 2003 Peter Bogaards
Q&A with Sir Arthur C. Clarke: “The Information Age offers much to mankind, and I would like to think that we will rise to the challenges it presents. But it is vital to remember that information ñ in the sense of raw data ñ is not knowledge; that knowledge is not wisdom; and that wisdom is not foresight. But information is the first essential step to all of these.” (Nalaka Gunawardene – OneWorld South Asia)