More Worldwide Photo Walk Images Honored
Introducing the Illuminato X Machina
Brooklyn Artists Propose Local Currency
Just found URL for Google Reader’s “Most Popular” feed – as if I don’t already spend enough time reading RSS! http://tr.im/wDYX
I’d trade my health benefits for an increase in salary any day. Insurance is for rare catastrophes, competition is for routine maintenance.
Health insurance considered harmful: Consumers are too shielded from the costs of what they demand. http://tr.im/wDcS, http://tr.im/wDcT
URL-shortener tr.im to go open-source & provide real-time aggregate click data: http://tr.im/wzvS. Interesting potential here.
First Rule of Usability: Don't Listen to Users
Classic wisdom on software development: speculation is the greatest enemy to usability.Ultimately, the way to get user data boils down to the basic rules of usability:
- Watch what people actually do.
- Do not believe what people say they do.
- Definitely don’t believe what people predict they may do in the future.
Speculation is the greatest enemy to usability. The best thing any team can do for their customers is to constantly pursue a workflow that prioritizes frequent, focused releases and replaces speculation for observation as much as possible.
Ultimately, the way to get user data boils down to the basic rules of usability:
- Watch what people actually do.
- Do not believe what people say they do.
- Definitely don’t believe what people predict they may do in the future.
A bunch of rare Star Wars photographs – fun!
Gentle summer evening and the sound of crickets for the perfect end of a restful day. Wait—iPhone, what are you doing here?!