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More ‘desire paths’ – thanks to Ariel Guersenzvaig (http://interacciones.org ) for the tip
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Mixed realities
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This looks to be an interesting book on Facebook’s use of persuasion techniques, compiled by B J Fogg and his team.
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What makes some objects retain their significance over time and in a changing human context?
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Incisive
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Very impressive indeed.
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‘One London based engineer/blogger calls it discriminatory architecture.’
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“Fisher-Price $100 Windows ™ machines” as one commenter puts it? I’m not sure if that’s the way the OLPC is going, but Mako’s analysis is sharp and consistent.
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“You can slow down some people a tiny, tiny bit — and cause problems for everyone else. ” The pseudo-DRM cargo cult rumbles on: if it’s not ‘preventing’ right-clicking, it’s ‘encrypting’ HTML source!
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“Any time you’re asking the user to make a choice they don’t care about, you have failed the user”. Old post, but great insight.
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“Dialog boxes are modal. But users do not think of them as “modal”, they think of them as “preventing me from getting any work done until I get rid of them.” Eric Lippert
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“…all along, [has] “human history”… really just been the production, in physical form, of someone else’s mental state – our world is their dream, then, and it is their ideas within which we live [?]“
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“You know how fast food joints have an iconic nature; they look like that same place years later. Old Taco Bells still look like you can get tacos, even if they serve Chinese, or are pawn shops.”
