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Kurt Laitner

Rands In Repose: A Design Primer for Engineers - 0 views

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UXD UX IA Design

shared by Kurt Laitner on 20 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • While I’ve spent a good many years soaking in design, I’m not a trained designer and the following descriptions of your history and your craft will piss you off with their simplicity, imprecision, incompleteness, and engineering bias.
  • I do believe working prototypes with sample interaction and animation is a far richer place to have a debate than a whiteboard.
  • My experience with the HCI folk is that they are often brilliant researchers. If you want to understand every possible workflow your users are trying on your application, the elapsed time to complete these workflows, and the enumerated set of quantified emotional damage these workflows are inflicting on your users, find an HCI guy, give him 18 months, and you’ll be <pause> dazzled.
  • Kurt Laitner on 20 Jan 12
     
    very well written, funny as hell, if you've been there..
Kurt Laitner

Liberationtech, How the Next Generation Diaspora* Should Be Built to Help High-Risk Act... - 0 views

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*YosemEduardoCompanys liberatontech *net diaspora Design

shared by Kurt Laitner on 02 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • design of information and communication technologies to foster freedom, democracy, human rights, development, and effective governance
  • it is important to differentiate between what activists do before a movement and what they do during a movement. 
  • This critical organizing task is done by a small group of people that need to be able to maintain strong ties to one another in a secure and private fashion if they are to succeed.
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  • private, secure, and distributed social network
  • facilitate the communication of a small group of people seeking to organize social change and subsequently enable them to broadcast that message through larger mainstream social networking sites
  • communication must be machine-to-machine
  • In other words, the sender and recipient must have an easy and fast means to install and manage the software on their machines
  •  Furthermore, the sender and the recipient must have the ability to stop using their machines and seamlessly use new ones, should the original machines be compromised for whatever reason by an authoritarian regime
  • “self-destruct mechanism”
  • the “right to forget” would have to be embedded
  • mobile
  • capability of synchronizing data on multiple machines simultaneously.
  • capability to access her data from the alternate location
  • connectivity
  • significant work on data compression will be required to ensure that the software’s performance remains nimble under such disparate conditions
  • Western society gives us two main legal-institutional vehicles for tackling the problem:  i) a for-profit firm a la limited liability company or C corporation; or ii) a non-profit firm a la private foundation or 501(c) organization.  (Another possibility is a hybrid for-profit/non-profit model a la WordPress or Mozilla, but let’s set that aside for now.)
  •  The resources come at a cost in terms of the organization having to perform in a reliable and accountable fashion relative to the expectations of its shareholders.  In the pursuit of profit, principle can easily be abandoned since, at the end of the day, all the shareholders care about is obtaining superior returns
  • Nevertheless, a non-profit organization is still owned by a small group of individuals,
  •  The project may even create disincentives for open-source involvement by creating restrictive intellectual property (IP) assignment contracts that require developers to give up all rights to the code they produce.
  • non-profit organization cannot sell shares
  •  Given this predicament, what are we to do to ensure that the organization is accountable to the activists it serves and can mobilize developers to contribute in an open-source manner to the project?  One possibility is the cooperative, a business organization owned and controlled democratically by its members for mutual benefit.
  • when correctly designed and executed
  • The developers can transfer their IP rights to the cooperative, knowing that such rights will not be exploited for financial gain without them.
  • Kurt Laitner on 02 Dec 11
     
    excellent article on how to build the next generation of infrastructure and what some key themes are.
Kurt Laitner

Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Situational overload and ambient overload - 1 views

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shared by Kurt Laitner on 09 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Ambient overload doesn't involve needles in haystacks. It involves haystack-sized piles of needles. We experience ambient overload when we're surrounded by so much information that is of immediate interest to us that we feel overwhelmed by the neverending pressure of trying to keep up with it all.
  • The cause of situational overload is too much noise. The cause of ambient overload is too much signal.
  • Kurt Laitner on 09 Mar 11
     
    "Ambient overload doesn't involve needles in haystacks. It involves haystack-sized piles of needles. We experience ambient overload when we're surrounded by so much information that is of immediate interest to us that we feel overwhelmed by the neverending pressure of trying to keep up with it all. "
frank smith

Underbrain Industrie - 0 views

Underbrain Industries pulls up it's big boy pants and goes to work.... Hey Netriends!!! I am gradding in December and starting my Masters junk... I am also turning up the heat on my consulting b...

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Underbrain Industrie - 0 views

Underbrain Industries pulls up it's big boy pants and goes to work.... Hey Netriends!!! I am gradding in December and starting my Masters junk... I am also turning up the heat on my consulting b...

underbrain Industries technology consulting training art nerd

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Kurt Laitner

Gist Blog - 0 views

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community customer service *catalyst

shared by Kurt Laitner on 24 Oct 10 - Cached
  • This week I had the pleasure to interview Thomas Knoll from Zappos who talks about building a community for your customers. Any company who cares about more than just selling to their customers and actually creating lasting relationships with them should give this a listen. If there is a brand who has written the rule book for customer service and engagement it has to be Zappos so I think we can all learn from what they are trying to build. Enjoy the interview and make sure to say hello to Thomas on Twitter here. He is definitely worth the follow.
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