The Culture Code: An ingenious way to understand why people around the world live and buy as they do. by Clotaire Rapaille Having spent substantial portions of my life in 3 very different cultures on 3 different continents (US, UK, Korea), I found “The Culture Code”, very insightful, entertaining and surprising. The Culture Code. as…
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Simplicity, Complexity and Contradiction in Design
Belatedly I finished John Maeda‘s book, The Laws of Simplicity, which outlines ten laws for balancing simplicity and complexity in business, technology and design. In effect he is building on the “Less is More” principle, popularized by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (originally spoken by Robert Browning in 1855.) I’ve been a long admirer…
Ambient Findability: A Walk through a Garden of Forking Paths
An information retrieval system will tend not to be used whenever it is more painful and troublesome for a customer to have information than for him not to have it.