August 2008
6 posts
Reinventing news on the web →
“While the water cooler variety of news has dominated the past, there is an opportunity to deliver a different sort of news — news which helps consumers make better decisions. Massive volumes of publicly available data, cheap compute cycles and storage, and ontologies like the social graph have lowered the cost for reinventing the news market.”
Are Users Dumb? →
“Are users dumb? User interface design is not about dumbing things down for the poor stupid user.
We software developers, understanding the software as we do, find it easy to look down upon those who lack our understanding.
This is wrong.
Users aren’t dumb. They just have better things to do with their lives than memorizing the internal data model of our screwy software.
When software is...
