No one would defeat that Apple's iPod is a new lifestyle device that became a tremendous success in the market. Yet, the success of the iPhone is not a given; esp. if you keep in mind the failure of Apple's Newton a decade ago. Read more about the Newton in RoughlyDrafted (Dec 2006): Newton Lessons for Apple's New Platform.
Jan 3, 2008
Jan 1, 2008
human reason
According to Joe Weizenbaum, the single most important paragraph of his book Computer Power and Human Reason is the following on page 276:
It is a widely held but a grievously mistaken belief that civil courage finds exercise only in the context of world-shaking events. To the contrary, its most arduous exercise is often in those small contexts in which the challenge is to overcome the fears induced by petty concerns over career, over our relationships to those who appear to have power over us, over whatever may disturb the tranquility of our mundane existence.I met Joe at MEDICHI in Klagenfurt last year. A great moment where he touched me.
Dec 30, 2007
New blogs on the block
5 new blogs will accompany mprove.de and provide more focus in each area.
- Interface Culture - about computers as new media
- User Experience Management - about product management and innovation processes > moved to http://hci-design.blogspot.com/search/label/management
- User Experience & HCI Design - about delightful software and web applications
- OpenOffice.org User Experience - about improving the open source office suite > this came to an end because Oracle removed its commitment to OOo. It seems that the branched LibreOffice has much more backing by the open source community.
- metascript - everything else is miscellaneous > This turned into a mini blog at mprove.tumblr.com/
- virtual UX - my blog at Oracle on Desktop Virtualization, Enterprise 2.0, and User Experience
Dec 2, 2007
Zeitgeist
Zeitgeist – An independant film by Peter Joseph
An impressive film about religion, the church, culture, war, history, money, terror, media, and a little bit about the truth. But, as the author said:
It is my hope that people will not take what is said in the film as the truth, but find out for themselves, for truth is not told, it is realized.
Sep 28, 2007
Aug 29, 2007
Aug 28, 2007
Jun 25, 2007
podcasts for reboot9
check out Nicole Simon's pre reboot conference podcasts at cruel to be kind. Actually, by now they are post reboot.
Technorati Tags: reboot, reboot9, openoffice
May 15, 2007
A duel at reboot9
I am happy to present at reboot9 this year. I'll talk about a duel between desktop- and web-computing.
Abstract. Today the user of personal computers is facing several inconsistencies which originate from an unresolved situation between two competing interaction models. The WIMP desktop model was developed nearly 30 years ago at Xerox Parc and Apple Computer. The web model became popular in the mid 1990s and has profoundly changed business and the perception of social relationships. Contradictions between these two models have a severe negative impact on human-computer interaction.
The presentation will be based on a similar talk I gave at MEDICHI a month ago.
Mar 2, 2007
Dueling Interaction Models of Personal-Computing and Web-Computing
A position paper for MEDICHI 2007 by Matthias Müller-Prove and Frank Ludolph:
Abstract. Today the user of PCs is facing several inconsistencies which originate from an unresolved situation between two competing interaction models. The WIMP-desktop model has been developed nearly 30 years ago at Xerox Parc and Apple Computer. The web model became popular in the mid 1990s and has profoundly changed business and the perception of social relationships. Contradictions between both models have a severe negative impact on the human-computer interaction.
Read the entire article.
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