The Design of Everyday Things Chapter 1

Sometime the designers got too caught up with how the product is going to look-like and forget about the functionality of the product. It is hard sometime to create thing that can adjust to everyone needs. The designers often should play the double roles: the role of the users and the role of the designer. Often time designer seem to forget the role of the users. Not just the telephone mentioned in the chapter, but also many other electronic devices that have added so many other extra features on them. Sometime the more functions added, the more problems it created. Often these functions base pass the main function of the device suppose to do.

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NASA Helps Take Photography To The Next Level

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=drive_to_discover&id=5695754

Would you retired in a retirement or a motel?

I read a very interesting a article while I standing in line at the lucky store couple days ago. This couple is now in their 80s has been living in the travelodge motel for the past 20 years instead living in a retirement home. IT cost them about $25 a day and about 175 per week. They said they don't have any utilities and they can use all air conditioner and heat they wanted to. No worry about clean up, the room service did it for them.

wikipedia on the Move

I just heard on TV news that they wikipedia will moving to San Francisco in February. In case you haven't heard yet.

I Google

This week I learned about the igoogle. I've never used before until Dr. Foreman mentioned in the class last week and Toni did her thing in igoogle doc. When I signed up for the igoogle account I did not know I can use my aol account and get to it. At first I signed up as a new user and somehow I did not successful get in. So I entered my aol account and it worked. When I logged in, I was so confuse where to start to make powerpoint presentation. Then I opened one of the files that Lynda had put in there already. I do the save as the presentation and it worked. Late last night when I checked my email, Desmond wanted to work with me on the "A Whole New Mind's Meaning
" I invited him into presentation slides that I have started.