"In essence, failure is research. This goes for design and user experience too. We learn from what we get wrong."
"Not just the designers and not just the programmers, but everyone has to center their work on satisfying the customers. You need to have sublime confidence that the only way to deliver a successful product or service is by first delivering some version that is wrong, or at least, not quite right. That is, success on the first try is not within the capabilities of humans. Iteration and incrementing are integral parts of a post-industrial approach to product development."
"Spreading a conversation is not the same as affecting it"
— Nicholas Christakis on the networked nature of Twitter » Nieman Journalism Lab
Investigadores do MIT exploram o Kinect da Microsoft como forma de navegar na net com gestos… ainda um pouco primitivo, mas com alguns conceitos interessantes.
DepthJS (by Fluid Interfaces)
“Pick your battles. All designers, when presented with an opportunity to redesign, are going to want to change a lot. But millions of users rarely want big changes all at once.”
Lista com os 25 artigos mais lidos em 2010. Boas referências de leitura.
Aaron Cannon, Blind Web Developer (by Cameron Moll)
Para não nos esquecermos porque são importantes as questões de acessibilidade.
“A few years ago, a frustrated customer would simply sigh and give up on a difficult product, or try to accomplish the same thing using another service. More recently, though, people have been treating websites and “garage-made” apps as if they were products from multi-national corporations, expecting the same level of service from a one-man band as they would get from their electricity company.”
