Monday, April 08, 2002

Great Design & Gratifying Ownership Experience HP launches projector line. The computing giant announces that it is entering the digital projector market, where its competition will include acquisition target Compaq Computer. [CNET News.com] One of the great experiences of my life was my first experience with an HP calculator. I started engineering school in the slide rule era. Half way through, HP, Bomar & TI announced electronic calculators. HP's was far more (expensive) advanced than the others. You can catch a feel for the electronic past here. Another slide rule site is here. It would be wonderful to see HP return to a consciousness of product design and usability that existed in those years - in all their products. 5:30:03 PM     Comments[]

For 15 years... I've been doing what Meryl is talking about - not with web design - with business processes. Similar techniques, different names and mostly similar goals. The big difference is in the measurement side of all of this. We use control charts and the like to determine process capabilities and capacities as a normal part of our work. Additionally, we apply statistical process control to the ongoing management of processes. Maybe applying those same skills to web design will give me some insights into why I can't get this stuff to work. Identifying Core Processes. Stop rolling your eyes at the mention of processes. Processes make up my day job and I know they're a pain. I've heard every excuse in the book. Even I... [meryl's notes] 12:42:34 PM     Comments[]

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