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A Case Study In Practical Technology Use

Started by sbspalding · 1 year ago

Having come back from a trip to Philadelphia, hundreds of miles away from blogging and work, I thought it might be interesting to take a look at technology in the wild. Having traveled the length of the east coast I wanted to take a look at a few of the gadgets and applications that I […]




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  • Great observations!

    I'm a Crackberry addict so I can definitely recommend one (the Curve is wonderfully engineered little gadget).

    I'm an ex- software engineer and can attest that unless they (engineers) are reigned in by someone more practical they will over-engineer something with a lot of useful features that have the unintuitive effect of making the end product less usable.
  • There is the trick, isn't it? Features are great for keeping people interested in a product they already know how to use, but you can't get them there in the first place unless the biggest value is dead simple.

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