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Everything Is Broken: August 2007
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Why Things Don't Work. Monday, August 20, 2007. Microsoft: Thinking outside the box. Even the brilliant Joel Spolsky can't get into Office 2007. It's a hard plastic case, sealed in two different places by plastic stickies. It represents a complete failure of industrial design; an utter F in the school of Donald Norman's Design of Everyday Things. To be technical about it, it has no true affordances and actually has some false affordances: visual clues as to how to open it that turn out to be wrong.
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Usergland: January 2005
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Working on a slogan since 2004. Now also Sugar Free. Friday, January 21, 2005. Originally uploaded by XaOS. We have the World's first 3.5 Terabyte iPod. Sorry, couldn't resist. Posted by Robert Sharl at 4:04 PM. Monday, January 03, 2005. Welcome to 2005, year of the supercomputer. Technorati. Has a New Year's Resolutions. 2 Buy more stuff. Before recently succumbing to the ravages of time (remind me to link to my new one. Before they ship here (March? Seeing the big picture isn't the same thing as commun...
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Usergland: April 2005
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Working on a slogan since 2004. Now also Sugar Free. Monday, April 18, 2005. Posted by Robert Sharl at 8:32 PM. Friday, April 08, 2005. The first three months of 2005 have flown by with barely a word here, and that's bad. In the meantime however all sorts of things have been happening, including some serious work on the Xserve cluster and the Visualisation side of the project, some interesting experiences with Motion Capture, and even some teaching, amazingly. Of my 2005 Resolutions. The usual crap, thou...
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Everything Is Broken: July 2007
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Why Things Don't Work. Tuesday, July 24, 2007. Not all plastics are created equal. This has been something I've had an issues with for some time, and Rui sums it up nicely in his analysis of Nokia's UI problems. No, my first thought was 800 Euro for this cheap greenish plastic? Posted by Robert Sharl at 1:37 PM. I'm planning on writing more about this very soon. This is only half of the story. Posted by Robert Sharl at 1:30 PM. Monday, July 23, 2007. Of 15 Unfortunately Placed Ads. Why the Rokr stinks.
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Everything Is Broken: November 2005
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Why Things Don't Work. Wednesday, November 23, 2005. Search Field Default Dumbness. Ok, lots of sites used to use default text in search fields (and other form fields) to describe what you might put in there. Some still do, including eBay. But they usually have the sense not to act on the text if you actually click the submit button. This one doesn't seem to have worked out that. Posted by Robert Sharl at 4:48 PM. Mike Priddy's Personal Hyperspace. Charlotte Carey's Creative Enterprise.
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Usergland: December 2005
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Working on a slogan since 2004. Now also Sugar Free. Sunday, December 04, 2005. Remix Culture and the Singularity. Paper from Prague that Mike Priddy and I are working up into a book chapter (18 days to go, so I'm hoping this lecture will speed things up on that front too). How am I planning to relate this to new media, and to new ways of thinking around existing forms? Banner, as they combine important aspects of. Posted by Robert Sharl at 3:10 PM. Birmingham, United Kingdom. View my complete profile.
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Usergland: October 2005
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Working on a slogan since 2004. Now also Sugar Free. Sunday, October 30, 2005. First look at the new iPod. Posted by Robert Sharl at 12:19 PM. Saturday, October 22, 2005. 6 Keys Good, 41 Keys Better? Nathan Weinberg at InsideMicrosoft on Blog News Channel wades into the discussion over Apple's Remote Controller and Front Row on the new iMac G5: In Steve Jobs Universe, Less Features Is The Biggest Feature. 10 keys on the MCE are digits, while Apple's doesn't need these since it doesn't do TV. Video confer...
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Usergland: October 2004
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Working on a slogan since 2004. Now also Sugar Free. Sunday, October 24, 2004. The guys at mekentosj. Really know how to look beneath the surface of stuff. Not content with winning an Apple Design Award, they set about discovering how it worked. The apparently solid metal cube glows from within when touched) by CT scanning it and reconstructing the data as 3D visualisations. Aside from everything else, it's a beautiful example of what can be done with Open Source medical visualisation software. Well, we ...
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Usergland: November 2005
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Working on a slogan since 2004. Now also Sugar Free. Wednesday, November 23, 2005. Ok, now I'm not suggesting anything as strange as this eBay item. But I've been thinking for a while about alternative value exchange systems like the LETS scheme. And others. Shouldn't the Internet have made this much more workable sometime ago? Were we waiting for Web 2.0 to establish the flexible types of glue that a true exchange system needs? Built on the foundations of Google Ranking. Posted by Robert Sharl at 3:20 PM.
