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  Wednesday, July 26, 2006


Bruce Sterling likes Brian Eno, too.

*I see that with the passage of the years, the great man
has conclusively graduated from "dilettante" to "polymath." No more
than our Brian deserves.


Some day I want to graduate from dilettante to polymath. I'd better get cracking, not much time left!
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Bob Jacobson says that John Thackara is one of his heroes of experience design. I was gonna say the same thing: Thackara comes off a bit whacko at times, but his thinking is so original and so focused on people, not technology, that I forgive him a little crankiness. It's worth quoting all his power laws of innovation here:

John Thackara's Power Laws Of Innovation. In Power Laws Of Innovation, Doors of Perception's John Thackara offers his thoughts on successful collaborative innovation. . .

Power Law 1: Don't think "new product" - think social value.

Power Law 2: Think social value before "tech."

Power Law 3: Enable human agency. Design people into situations, not out of them.

Power Law 4: Use, not own. Possession is old paradigm.

Power Law 5: Think P2P, not point-to-mass.

Power Law 6: Don't think faster, think closer.

Power Law 7: Don't start from zero. Re-mix what's already out there.

Power Law 8: Connect the big and the small.

Power Law 9: Think whole systems (and new business models, too).

Power Law 10: Think open systems, not closed ones.


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I will be writing a piece on Web applications very soon, so I also want to link to Tara's rant on what's wrong with browsers, which ties neatly into the pros and cons of Web 2.0 and why the browser is actually a pretty lousy application platform.

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I occasionally have to remind myself why I bother with this blog, and now's as good a time as any to reveal the secret to my readers: one of the primary uses of this blog is to, essentially, bookmark stuff that I might want to refer back to some day, especially if I think I might need to write about it.

This is one of those instances: I might be writing a piece about the management of design, so it would be a good idea for me to grab a link to this piece by LukeW on organizing design groups—


Design Group Organization. It[base ']s hard to work in a large design team without getting at least somewhat involved in how the group is organized. During my time within such teams, I[base ']ve been a part of many discussions and iterations of different organization models.

From these experiences, I[base ']ve developed a model that seems to be able to sustain a large amount of distinct project work and simultaneously support the diversity of the designers within the team. . .  [Functioning Form: Interface Design]

Stand by, more to come.


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