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On my competitive nature
I’ll copy the warning previously seen at Erik’s SnowedIn: Warning: If you are easily bored by long drawn-out descriptions of running, you should probably skip this entry. For a change of pace, I went to IU’s HPER (School of Health, Physical Education, & Recreation) Gymnasium to exercise this morning. HPER (pronounced “hyper”) is a huge…
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Remember
“Free Advice” (with purchase of book) Think More, Design Less Say More, Write Less Spend More, Buy Less It is easier to talk than to listen. No job is too small. An interface calls attention to itself at its point of failure. The early bird gets to work before everyone else. Courtesy Ellen Lupton This…
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The User
And I quote: “The dominant subject of our age has become neither reader nor writer but user, a figure conceived as a bundle of needs and impairments-cognitive, physical, emotional. Like a patient or child, the user is a figure to be protected and cared for but also scrutinized and controlled, submitted to research and testing.…
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On Letters
I just spent the evening reading about letters. Really interesting stuff. There’s much more to the design of typefaces and fonts than I had realized. When we talk about ubiquity in HCI classes, we think of it in terms of computers being in many places, but if you really think about it, letters are objects…