Category: Design

Shall We Play a Game?

Anyone familiar with Matthew Broderick’s 1983 movie WarGames knows a simple strategic simulation could lead the US to the brink of a thermonuclear war. The movie’s artificial intelligence only stepped back at the last moment after reasoning that such a conflict would be a no-win situation for all of its participants. Some things should not…

Design Becomes a Feature

Times have changed for user-experience specialists on Wall Street and probably not for the better. Slightly after the iPhone 3s introduced Siri, Wall Street firms realized that their retail and institutional users were now benchmarking their software offerings against the UX provided by Apple and other vendors catering to the retail market. Web-based GUIs that…

UX Goes Mainstream

Did you happen to catch last night’s Charlie Rose’s 60 Minute interview of IDEO founder David Kelley? If you haven’t, it’s worth a quick view. Rose’s interview doesn’t reach the level of inside baseball, but he manages to have Kelley sum up his firm’s design philosophy as “empathy for the consumer” and describe his firm’s multi-discipline group development…

Avoid Big Data’s Hype

This morning I received an email explaining that by deploying this vendor’s Big Data solution, it would let me outperform my business rivals while it goes on to balance my checkbook and wash my car on Sunday. I get a tons of these unsolicited emails every day as a journalist. I’m not naming names since…