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Jul
17th

Thu

Quando tutto intorno a noi, dall’economia alla politica, lancia segnali negativi e molto negativi, pensare all’imprevedibile è una strada per immaginare qualcosa di positivo.

— Luca De Biase

Jul
16th

Wed

penso che si tratti di progettare proprio dentro le relazioni sociali del mondo reale e non dentro il cellulare o il computer

— David Weinberger (via Luca De Biase)

«Quando crei uno spazio sociale, l’uso che la gente ne farà è imprevedibile». Esempio: «L’ascensore». Che cosa fa la gente nell’ascensore. Simpatico. Si guarda il soffitto. Si fa amicizia. Si fanno cose clandestine… Ecc ecc. «Stessa cosa quando crei uno spazio sociale online». La gente semplicemente ci fa quello che le pare. «Chi poteva prevedere che la gente avrebbe messo otto volte più foto su Facebook, un social network generico, che su Flickr, un sito specializzato nello scambio di foto online?»

— Imprevedibile Weinberger (Luca De Biase)

Jul
14th

Mon

If you’re an interaction designer, you need to design interfaces to help your users experience Flow. Three fairly plain lessons:
* Don’t interrupt your users
* Help your users to accept new ideas
* Help your users to think creatively

— Flow Interactive :: The Think blog. » What makes us productive and what makes us stupid

If you’ve ever looked up at the clock and realised that an hour or two has rushed past unexpectedly, chances are you were in a state of Flow.

— Flow Interactive :: The Think blog. » What makes us productive and what makes us stupid

Jul
11th

Fri

Whether it’s specs on how enterprise software functions or the address of a local dry cleaner or details for treatment of medical condition, it all boils down to essentially the same thing. Solving that information need.

— Chiara Fox .com (Now with more Fox): What User Experience Means To Me

Jul
10th

Thu

Il sito web? Da solo non basta | - Il blog di HTML.it

Jul
5th

Sat

2. Come previsto dalle Condizioni Generali di Contratto, il cliente deve attenersi ai criteri di buona fede e correttezza nell’uso del piano Vodafone Facile per iPhone Special Edition; si presume un uso non conforme a buona fede se il traffico voce supera i 7.000 minuti al mese o alternativamente se il traffico SMS supera i 7.000 SMS al mese.

— Vodafone

Jul
4th

Fri

Supporting IE 6 means slower progress, less progress, and, in some places, no progress.

— Phasing out support for IE 6 across all 37signals products on August 15, 2008

Jul
3rd

Thu

Flow Interactive :: The Think blog. » UX strategy and scorecard for the TDA

Jun
28th

Sat

For every new feature you need to…

* 1. Say no.
* 2. Force the feature to prove its value.
* 3. If “no” again, end here. If “yes,” continue…
* 4. Sketch the screen(s)/ui.
* 5. Design the screen(s)/ui.
* 6. Code it.
* 7-15. Test, tweak, test, tweak, test, tweak, test, tweak…
* 16. Check to see if help text needs to be modified.
* 17. Update the product tour (if necessary).
* 18. Update the marketing copy (if necessary).
* 19. Update the terms of service (if necessary).
* 20. Check to see if any promises were broken.
* 21. Check to see if pricing structure is affected.
* 22. Launch.
* 23. Hold breath.

— Getting Real: Hidden Costs (by 37signals)

Never throw more time or money at a problem, just scale back the scope.
[…]
If you can’t fit everything in within the time and budget allotted then don’t expand the time and budget. Instead, pull back the scope. There’s always time to add stuff later — later is eternal, now is fleeting.
[…]
Our recommendation: Scope down. It’s better to make half a product than a half-assed product (more on this later).

— Getting Real: Fix Time and Budget, Flex Scope (by 37signals)

Ship less features, but quality features.
You don’t need a big bang approach with a whole new release and bunch of features. Give the users byte-size pieces that they can digest.

If there are minor bugs, ship it as soon you have the core scenarios nailed and ship the bug fixes to web gradually after that. The faster you get the user feedback the better. Ideas can sound great on paper but in practice turn out to be suboptimal. The sooner you find out about fundamental issues that are wrong with an idea, the better.

Once you iterate quickly and react on customer feedback, you will establish a customer connection. Remember the goal is to win the customer by building what they want.

— Sanaz Ahari (via Getting Real by 37signals)

Jun
27th

Fri

If a wireframe document is destined to stop and never directly become the actual design, don’t bother doing it. If the wireframe starts as a wireframe and then morphs into the actual design, go for it.

— Getting Real: Don’t Do Dead Documents (by 37signals)

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