March 19, 2004
uiweb: Programmers, designers and the Brooklyn Bridge.
The design and engineering of modern technology, software and the web has bred a hubris that anything older than a few years can’t possibly be relevant, and I think it’s a mistake. To argue this point, there is no better place to start as a basis of comparison and learning than the story of the Brooklyn Bridge.
Good Experience: Debating The Page Paradigm.
Anything that helps create a good experience is worthwhile. Anything else must be discarded. Job titles, methodologies, and breadcrumb links are good only to the degree that they help create a good experience for the customer.
Economist: The car that screens your calls.
The idea is to monitor the driver's activity via the steering wheel, pedals and indicators (turn signals), and assess the complexity of the current manoeuvre using a set of predefined rules. If this complexity exceeds a certain threshold, the system filters out unnecessary distractions...
EE Times: UWB group remains deadlocked.
For the fourth consecutive time, the IEEE 802.15.3a task group on ultrawideband technology failed to break a protracted deadlock. What little progress was proprietary rather than within the standards process itself.
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