Wil Shipley:
The latter is the touchstone of great design: we must strive to make our programs require as little learning as possible on the user’s part. Each little thing they have to learn about our program is another obstacle to them using it fully, another tiny chunk of enjoyment stripped from their experience.
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OpenCaster is an open-source TS streaming application by Avalpa Digital Engineering.
They have a mantra: “Keep it Simple, Stupid!“
As mantras go, that isn’t bad. We’ve all encountered the KISS principle at some point. Simple enough, let’s move on…
Keep it simple stays for “don’t complicate things if it’s not necessary”.
Um, yes. I guess it does. [...]
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Via @timo.
John Welch would like you to stop overcomplicating things which are really very simple:
So what do you do when you’re faced with someone who is ranting and raving, probably in an obscene fashion about your product or company? Talk To Them I don’t mean talk at them, or quote [...]
Was taken by this quote:
And while we’re agreeing with John Scalzi, let’s also note that yes, honestly, the attitudes of the “big three” toward electronic submission really have, over the last decade, gone from “practical response to unsolved problems of electronic mail and text” to “old man [...]
[T]he technologies of rapid fabrication and pervasive networks are allowing the tangible and intangible to switch places and mingle.
The above quote is from this slide deck from Matt Jones, which you will read now.
Really. Go:
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Christopher Fahey:
From a behavioral perspective, I find the watchclock fascinating not simply because it’s a kind of steampunk GPS, a wind-up mechanical location-awareness technology. I’m further fascinated at how this holistic system of watchclocks, keys, guards, and supervisors succeeded so completely in creating a method of behavioral control such that a human being’s [...]
Rands:
The rule is: if you’re starting a presentation by endlessly fussing with your presentation design, you probably don’t have anything to say.
Also see: Keynote Kung-Fu.
Dan Benjamin:
The Path is not difficult for those who have no preferences.
Letting go of how you believe things should be is the hardest part of learning.