More ‘desire paths’ – thanks to Ariel Guersenzvaig (http://interacciones.org ) for the tip

Mixed realities

This looks to be an interesting book on Facebook’s use of persuasion techniques, compiled by B J Fogg and his team.

What makes some objects retain their significance over time and in a changing human context?

Incisive

Very impressive indeed.

‘One London based engineer/blogger calls it discriminatory architecture.’

“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.

“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!

“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.

“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

“…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 [?]”

“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.”