Sarah was excited about helping her mother prepare Thanksgiving dinner. She watched as her mother cut both both ends off the ham before putting it in the pan and then into the oven. “Mom, why did you cut off both ends of the ham?” Sarah asked. “That’s the way my mother always did it, so that’s how I do it.”
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In the world of design we have so many tools and methods to make rapid prototyping simple and easy. So much time and money is spent trying to refine the process, but many times, simpler is better. If you are unfamiliar or uncomfortable with paper prototyping, I highly recommend this next video. Sometimes we have to go back to our
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So you need a teapot You hear on the news that a new gourmet tea shop has opened. Your mother-in-law loves tea and is coming for a visit. Your rush out to purchase this highly coveted tea but realize you don’t have a teapot. It doesn’t need to be a fancy teapot; just an ordinary, every day teapot. The color and material are not all that
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A quoi ça sert? (What’s it for?) Asked by President Jacques Chirac of Prime Minister Tony Blair upon being shown the Millennium Dome – which has no discernible function. Born to question That I am an analyst is a predisposition, being both genetically imprinted with some random mutated analysis gene and further etched by the environments in which I have
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What is the foot without the little toe? Or the head without a heart? Could you walk without your little toes? Can you imagine thoughts without emotions? That’s exactly what you experience when you visit websites created without design and usability as complementary components – emotionless thoughts, thoughtless emotions, footless toes and toeless feet! In “Form or Function: When Creativity and Usability
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The significant problems we have cannot be solved with the thinking used to create them. Albert Einstein The basic need of the creator is independence. The reasoning mind cannot work under any form of compulsion. It cannot be curbed, sacrificed or subordinated to any consideration whatsoever. It demands total independence in function and in motive. Gary Cooper as Howard Roark in
