Low quality demand, then, means that we buy cheap, but the price is invisibly steep: it ignites a global race to the bottom, what a complexity economist might call a dynamic equilibrium of negative consumption externalities, consumption that results not just in joblessness but a loss in the quality of jobs. […]
Now that I’m settled in SF, I’ve had some time to practice drumming. For my neighbors’ sake, I have an electronic kit.
I re-realized something about drum fills and wanted to share it with the internet. FYI: Fills are the part where instead of keeping the beat, you hear a whole bunch of notes played all […]
I went out to breakfast yesterday, and ordered eggs benedict. It showed up looking delicious, except the English muffin was slightly burned. I dug in because I was hungry, and when the server came by to see if everything was good, I nodded yes for the same reason. I should have said something, but between […]
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Notes from Jeff Johnson presentation at PARC. He’s from the company UI Wizards Inc
He points out that Shneiderman’s UI Design Guidelines is the classic book, but that the guidelines in it are very “open to interpretation” and it requires a lot of background (like watching users use applications). He thinks there’s also a lot of […]
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