Business Week: "This is one hell of a book" Bruce Sterling: "This classic has no rival in its field" Don Norman: "This will be the book"
Digital technology has changed the way we interact with everything from the games we play to the tools we use at work. Designers of digital technology products no longer regard their job as designing a physical object--beautiful or utilitarian--but as designing our interactions with it. In Designing Interactions, award-winning designer Bill Moggridge introduces us to forty influential designers who have shaped our interaction with technology. Moggridge, designer of the first laptop computer (the GRiD Compass, 1981) and a founder of the design firm IDEO, tells us these stories from an industry insider's viewpoint, tracing the evolution of ideas from inspiration to outcome. The innovators he interviews--including Will Wright, creator of The Sims, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the founders of Google, and Doug Engelbart, Bill Atkinson, and others involved in the invention and development of the mouse and the desktop--have been instrumental in making a difference in the design of interactions. Their stories chart the history of entrepreneurial design development for technology.
Moggridge and his interviewees discuss such questions as why a personal computer has a window in a desktop, what made Palm's handheld organizers so successful, what turns a game into a hobby, why Google is the search engine of choice, and why 30 million people in Japan choose the i-mode service for their cell phones. And Moggridge tells the story of his own design process and explains the focus on people and prototypes that has been successful at IDEO--how the needs and desires of people can inspire innovative designs and how prototyping methods are evolving for the design of digital technology.
Designing Interactions is illustrated with more than 700 images, with color throughout. Accompanying the book is a DVD that contains segments from all the interviews intercut with examples of the interactions under discussion.
Interviews with: Bill Atkinson • Durrell Bishop • Brendan Boyle • Dennis Boyle • Paul Bradley • Duane Bray • Sergey Brin • Stu Card • Gillian Crampton Smith • Chris Downs• Tony Dunne • John Ellenby • Doug Englebart • Jane Fulton Suri • Bill Gaver • Bing Gordon • Rob Haitani • Jeff Hawkins • Matt Hunter • Hiroshi Ishii • Bert Keely • David Kelley • Rikako Kojima • Brenda Laurel • David Liddle • Lavrans Løvlie • John Maeda • Paul Mercer • Tim Mott • Joy Mountford • Takeshi Natsuno • Larry Page • Mark Podlaseck • Fiona Raby • Cordell Ratzlaff • Ben Reason • Jun Rekimoto • Steve Rogers • Fran Samalionis • Larry Tesler • Bill Verplank • Terry Winograd • Will Wright
Open-source information gathering can rival, if not surpass, the clandestine intelligence produced by government agencies.
The "collaboration" section of this article essentially describes the MemeStreams model.
Why aren't you selling it?
America will be a more secure country once it discards the notion that secrecy is equal to strength.
The Jebsen Center at Tufts, mentioned in this article, has an open-invite Brown Bag lunch seminar program. Coming up in February, the NYPD intelligence department will conduct a recruiting Q&A session for those interested in counterterrorism.
With nearly 4 million Google hits, why isn't 'stateful' in the dictionary?
Topic: Miscellaneous
4:22 pm EST, Jan 26, 2007
I first noticed that 'stateful' isn't in the OAD that comes with OSX. (It's also not in the Firefox dictionary, but that's hardly surprising.) So I checked the unabridged OED, and it's only listed there as "rare", with the definition given as "Full of state or dignity; stately." Roughly the same definition is provided by Webster's Unabridged.
It seems like more than enough time has passed to warrant a more contemporary listing, at least in the unabridged dictionary.
This film is excellent. I saw it a few weeks ago and should have posted about it then. Highly recommended.
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If you haven't seen Pan's Labyrinth you should catch it while its in theaters. A positively creepy film in which a little girl intertwines her fantasies with the tragic reality around her. Very well done. (Do not bring children.)
The film is set in post-Civil War northern Spain, in 1944. A young girl, Ofelia (Ivana Baquero), moves with her pregnant mother Carmen (Ariadna Gil), and her stepfather Captain Vidal (Sergi Lopez), into a new home in the countryside. Vidal and his small army have been sent to the remote area to rid it of a small Republican militia.
Ofelia, who often immerses herself in ancient stories and fairy tales, finds an immense and ancient labyrinth near her new home. There, she meets a faun (Doug Jones) who reveals that she is the long-lost daughter of the King of the Underworld, and that to regain entry to her kingdom she must carry out three tasks. The faun gives her a storybook, which will tell her the details of the tasks.
We enter the year 2007 with large endeavors underway, and others that are ours to begin.
As though it was Hussein who attacked Bush with a massive volley of cruise missiles and killed his child in a precision air strike, and not the other way around.
Congress has changed, but our responsibilities have not.
It was our fault then, and it's our fault now. My lack of ideas is still my lack of ideas, and your inability to act is still yours. My unwillingness to listen is still securely my own, and still you consistently irritate me with your unwillingness to let bygones be bygones. He's dead now, okay! Does it really matter any more, which of us was lying to Hans Blix?
Some in this Chamber are new to the House and Senate ... Our citizens don’t much care which side of the aisle we sit on – as long as we are willing to cross that aisle when there is work to be done.
As a friendly reminder to the newbies: work is to be done on alternate Tuesday afternoons, on every third Thursday after a come-from-behind win by a Washington-area professional sports team, and in the week immediately following a State of the Union address.
We set a goal of cutting the deficit in half by 2009 – and met that goal three years ahead of schedule.
Boy, am I glad I listened to my Treasury secretary when he suggested that we double our estimate before publicly announcing any budgetary goal. (I wonder if he had any other good ideas. Wait -- who am I to wonder?)
Even worse, over 90 percent of earmarks never make it to the floor of the House and Senate – they are dropped into Committee reports that are not even part of the bill that arrives on my desk. You did not vote them into law. I did not sign them into law. Yet they are treated as if they have the force of law. The time has come to end this practice.
Answer me this: how am I supposed to claim credit for this hard-earned pork when it's not even referenced in the bill I've signed?
-- Simpsons interlude --
Burns offers Homer a check for $2,000. All he has to do is sign this form.
Homer: Wait a minute, I'm not signing anything until I read it, or someone gives me the gist of it.
Yet we are failing in that duty – and this failure will one day leave our children with three bad options. Everyone in this Chamber knows this to be true – yet somehow we have not found it in ourselves to act.
You know, I could have sworn my speech-writers told me this part was about entitlements. But it sounds like something else entirely. Well, on further reflection, I suppose I felt entitled to take B... [ Read More (0.2k in body) ]
Running from Carmel, 150 miles south of San Francisco, to San Simeon, Big Sur's mass of tight mountains pushes brazenly against the Pacific swell. Kelp forests sway at the feet of rugged sea cliffs. Deep valleys shelter some of the southernmost redwoods. The only way through this fastness is along winding, breathtaking California Route 1.
