Mental models
For a few minutes of comic relief, I love catching up with the latest posts on clientsfromhell. Some of the stories are scarily familiar and others just plain terrifying. But there’s a category of story that is amusing because it misunderstands something so familiar to us as “computer people” that they make us see the things we do in new ways. more »
A real page turner
I was listening to the excellent I.A. Podcast with Jeff Parks the other day. In the episode titled “Working in the post-industrial era” with Dorian Taylor they spoke about many interesting subjects concerning modern working practices.
Early on in the conversation Jeff and Dorian discuss some of the drawbacks inherent in following UI metaphors too closely. Making an operating system resemble a home office certainly allows an inexperienced user to start working more quickly, but there are times that the computing power available in modern personal computers can be leveraged to process and display information in far more interesting ways. more »
