Posts tagged tech
“User Experience is the establishment of a philosophy about how to treat people. Visual Design is the establishment of a philosophy about how to make an impact.”
Whitney Hess quoted in User Experience The Don Draper Way
![BBC News - App helps blind to send text messages
“[There is] a growing anxiety shared among the blind community that the widespread adoption of touchscreens for many machines and devices is making them ‘truly blind’… from copying machines to machines at the gym - is all coming with touch screens.”
“Blind people say I ‘see’ things with my fingers, but on touchscreens they are truly blind.”](http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzrk3iYVmZ1qzsvqyo1_500.jpg)
BBC News - App helps blind to send text messages
“[There is] a growing anxiety shared among the blind community that the widespread adoption of touchscreens for many machines and devices is making them ‘truly blind’… from copying machines to machines at the gym - is all coming with touch screens.”
“Blind people say I ‘see’ things with my fingers, but on touchscreens they are truly blind.”
“A good hockey player skates to where the puck is. A great hockey player skates to where the puck is going to be.”
Wayne Gretzky | 5 things that destroy a company’s value
Is Twitter a publisher and distributor of information like a newspaper, or is it just a dumb pipe like a telephone network? Lawyers in Australia seem to believe that a case could be made that Twitter is a publisher, like a newspaper, and therefore it can be sued for defamation as a result of a single tweet. That may be a stretch… but it highlights the difficulties that Twitter could have as it tries to expand around the globe and into different legal environments.
“Nearly every start-up working in payments is simply creating a new front end for your credit card…. They all seem new and shiny, and we all marvel at the possibility that they could become the next wave in paying for stuff, but none of them could work without credit cards.”
“If Pinterest can keep enough eyeballs on people’s boards, those pins can functions as a more powerful and permanent recommendation than will my Facebook newsfeed’s transient mentions of what I listened to on Spotify or what brand of coffee I liked today.”
“Pinterest is a place where we can demonstrate: ‘If it weren’t for all those mundane things that I do that I post on Facebook, this is what I would be doing and consuming. Here is my real self.’”
“[Tim Berners-Lee] told me about his proposed system called the ‘World Wide Web.’ And I thought, well, that’s got a pretentious name.”
“The average person looks at their phone 150 times a day, or once every six-and-a-half minutes of every waking hour.”
“Mobile phones are the most widely used technology in the world. At the end of this year, there will be 5.8 billion people with mobile devices, meaning there are twice as many mobile users as Internet users.”
