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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MALFUNCTION MALFUNCTION!!! What in the world has happened to Twitter? Earlier in the week I noticed the addition of this little rotating ad type box underneath my stats. It was mildly annoying, but not so obtrusive or disconcerting as to cause alarm. I pretty much ignore that little blip on my screen, so what do I care really
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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
