Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web The Android Paradox, Hackers and Casuals – acoustik – Quora Most Android developers, designers, and product people tend to be Hackers. That’s why we do the things we do. And when we build features, we tend to build them for ourselves. Normally there’s nothing wrong withRead… Read more »
Fifteen years ago, I predicted the demise of the supermarket. Four years ago, I noted that that hadn’t turned out to be the greatest of predictions: I wasn’t quite daft enough to think that everybody was going to do their food shopping online. My argument was slightly more subtle, though it has so far provedRead… Read more »
If it’s got a Change Management Board, it means it isn’t changing. Anthony Zacharzewski Original post
It is hard to change constitutions – deliberately so. It is hard to re-engineer physical infrastructure – intrinsically so. It is hard to stop and start again from scratch. Every decision and every context in which those decisions are made is the product of what has gone before, even when in another sense they mayRead… Read more »
Unpolished designs have never stopped good products from succeeding, but it doesn’t mean that good products should remain unpolished. Dmitry Fadeyev commenting on Are Designers Crazy? by Terence Eden Original post
Today my home broadband got upgraded. A few hours ago, 7Mbps down and a tenth of that up was as good as it ever got. Now it’s close to 50Mbps down and, even more dramatically, about 15Mbps up. Once there were no computers visibly in my life, still less devices which happened to compute. NowRead… Read more »
Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web World building 201: Heuristics – Charlie’s Diary The ratio of the near future is: 90% of it is just like today, 9% is stuff that is on the drawing boards, and 1% is unutterably strange and alien and unexpected. Creativity at the heart of government –Read… Read more »
Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web Standing on the shoulders of giants | Government Digital Service We also believe in openness and we think that government departments should behave as though there are humans in them. This is from our human side. Creating digital services. A jump not a journey | iansthoughtsRead… Read more »
You can’t regulate for bad incentives. Indy Johar Original post
Designing complex systems is complicated. Sometimes there are interactions between the pieces which don’t quite join up, customer journeys which turn out to have structural obstacles. Some of that can be obscured or avoided through good interface design, but sometimes the underlying ugliness just pokes through. This screen marks the successful end of a transaction.Read… Read more »