Tell me. How good are we as a company at coming up with an excellent solution? What is the variability in our solutions depending on the teams we assemble? I was listening to the “People I mostly admire” podcast with an interview with Daniel Kahneman. https://freakonomics.com/podcast/daniel-kahneman-on-why-our-judgment-is-flawed-and-what-to-do-about-it-people-i-mostly-admire-ep-27/ They were talking about his book Noise. In the conversation… Continue reading 1% Everyday – Noise in Organizational Decision Making
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1% Everyday – Stop trying to get people to say yes … you want “No”
It is very hard for people to say yes. Saying yes is a commitment with too much ambiguity. Trying to get someone to “yes” will always slow down the process. Saying “no” is always the easiest. “People have been conditioned to expect hidden hooks in yes. They’ve been trapped by it in the past. Someone has… Continue reading 1% Everyday – Stop trying to get people to say yes … you want “No”
1% Everyday – Human memory and chunking (Miller’s law)
Have you ever thought about why it is easier to remember a 10-digit phone number than just 10 numbers? For example: read the following 7 3 4 2 1 6 1 5 8 1 Close your eyes and repeat the 10 numbers … Now if I show it as a telephone number 734 – 216-… Continue reading 1% Everyday – Human memory and chunking (Miller’s law)
1% everyday – Visual design and Gestalt principles
When talking about visual perception the most enduring explanation is the Gestalt principles. Smashing has a good article: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2014/03/design-principles-visual-perception-and-the-principles-of-gestalt/ Visual Principles (Gestalt): Visual Principles (Gestalt) examples: Similarity: shapes, color, size Continuation: paths, lines, curves, flow Closure: complete shapes, perceived completeness Proximity: proximity of objects create a perceived larger shape Figure/ground: visual separation of figures from backgrounds… Continue reading 1% everyday – Visual design and Gestalt principles
Mmm Breadbrumbs
When you can see the whole path it is easy to know where you are. If you take a hike in the woods, the trail map lets you know where you are going and where you have come from. When working on your computer or phone, it is impossible to see the whole application from one screen. Have you… Continue reading Mmm Breadbrumbs
Analysis: Workflow Analysis
The Workflow Analysis is a tool to document and enumerate the workflows around products and services of the company that are touched by end-users. The workflow analysis follows key workflows through the organization’s products and services entering, crossing boundaries, and exiting upon conclusion of the work. The workflows may occur across personas, departments, and organizations.… Continue reading Analysis: Workflow Analysis
Luminoso Compass and Frictionless Design
Luminoso announces the launch of COMPASS, their next generation enterprise feedback solution! Luminoso Compass enables you to consume, interpret, and act on large-scale feedback in real time – across multiple languages. It captures new themes in conversation, extracts actionable insights, unearths the root causes and illuminates the driving themes and topics. In addition, Luminoso Compass removes spam, irrelevant… Continue reading Luminoso Compass and Frictionless Design
Have kids design their own solutions to problems
I have to admit that I found this article to be quite grating as a blatant free advertisement for frog design. They are a fantastic design firm but Fast Company is so enamored with them that they post an article that is an infomercial. I guess it is a good thing that it was posted… Continue reading Have kids design their own solutions to problems
Communication Tools at Work
Email still is the main tool for communication at work. Even with all the ports of social media to the enterprise, email is the core tool. The are several problems with email that people are trying to solve with social media such as the asynchronous aspect of email and the heavy client on the machine… Continue reading Communication Tools at Work
Interaction Design Foundations
Now that David Malouf works for a art school every problem look like a “art” problem? In art school you need to master the primitives. There are 6 elements: line plane volume value texture color David asks if there are similar primitives to interaction design? Here are his 5 elements: time abstraction metaphor negativity motion… Continue reading Interaction Design Foundations
Making things Less Complicated
Marc Rettig made a good presentation. It is interesting though, I appreciate the presentation more for the intimacy he created in a crowd of 500 then for the content. I will share some of the content nuggets then move on to the intimate moments ;> How do you design to make things less complicated? We… Continue reading Making things Less Complicated
Behavior is our Medium
Fabricant on using design to influence the user. Robert starts by positing that interaction is not about computing technology. Technology is not medium … behavior is. This seems to ruffle some feathers in Vancouver. As noted by: John Kolko Robert Fabricant Robert went on to talk about how we can use design to influence behavior.… Continue reading Behavior is our Medium
What is Reality?
Raby on Products Influence Reality Fiona Raby had a hell of a time with Apple’s PPT replacement. It failed on every video. And her presentation was 90%videos. Mind you, she did tell us all that she did not test it ahead of time. It made me laugh. We were part of the experiment. How does… Continue reading What is Reality?
Designing for Sustainability
Thackara on Designing for Sustainability Oh how we have destroyed the earth as we know it? Dire consequences of industrialization – we have reached the peak of so much energy, protein, motion … So what are we going to do about it? How do we start working on these problems? Are we going to design… Continue reading Designing for Sustainability
The Best
What is the best? Is the best marketshare? Mindshare? Good enough? Optimal? Cost effective? Luxury? Tolerant? Cheap? Viral? What do you mean by best? How do you find the best? Here is what happens in the software world: A person comes up with an idea He runs with the idea Sometimes it succeeds, sometimes it… Continue reading The Best