From the monthly archives: October 2011

Be Prepared to Throw Away Your Prototypes

By On October 25, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Product Development

Alan Cooper wrote in his book The Inmates Are Running the Asylum:

writing a big program is like making a pile of bricks. Where each brick is laid on top of the other. The bigger the program, the more bricks are laid on top of each other. So if you have 1000 [...]

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Are You A Feature Hoarder?

By On October 24, 2011 · 1 Comment · In Product Development

Seeing as it’s spring, it’s a good time to talk about Spring Cleaning. Or perhaps more appropriately, the hoarding of stuff that you might maybe use one day so you can’t throw it away. Being Asian, I know all about hoarding stuff, it’s right up there with wrapping your remotes in plastic as things [...]

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Concept #2 – Best Burger I’ve Tasted, Ever

By On October 24, 2011 · 2 Comments · In Concepts

So in random conversation over the past couple of weeks the subject of burgers came up. Each time with 3 different people, they would make the claim that they knew of the best place to get a burger. Interesting. It got me thinking does everyone have a “best burger place”. It didn’t help [...]

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Pitching in Pecha Kucha Style: 20 Images x 20 Seconds

By On October 23, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Events

Two weeks ago saw the first Pecha Kucha Night in Adelaide, which I was proud to be a part of. Pecha Kucha started in Japan as a means for young designers to show off their work and design ideas. The name is Japanese for “chit-chat” and Pecha Kucha nights have [...]

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Designing to Minimise Cognitive Friction

By On October 23, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Product Development

As the team puts the finishing touches before delivery of software an interesting design dilemma came up. It reminded me of a concept I read in The Inmates Are Running the Asylum by Alan Cooper. This was the concept that Cooper called, Cognitive Friction.

Cooper defines this as:

The [...]

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