Building Mobile Apps for Africa | White African (4)
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White African (111)
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(Note: I’m going to ask you to contribute to this at the end, so start thinking…!) I just got back from another trip to Kenya. This time I spent a week with Ken Banks as part of a workshop on social media in Africa, put on by some really smart people (thanks Mika and Linda!). As generally happens when we get in a room together, we start talking over some ideas that are bigger than ...
Avoiding The Uncanny Valley of User Interface (79)
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Are you familiar with the uncanny valley? No, not that uncanny valley. Well, on second thought, yes, that uncanny valley. In 1978, the Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori noticed something interesting: The more humanlike his robots became, the more people were attracted to them, but only up to a point. If an android become too realistic and lifelike, suddenly people were repelled and disgusted. The problem, Mori realized, is in the nature of how we identify ...
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tayknight said:
pretty interesting if you can get past the cleavage.
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Isaac H said:
Important!
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ravidor said:
A must read and thought about for every web developer/designer/palnner/whatever
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Wilka said:
More things that want your credit card details
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Juan Pablo Ortiz Arechiga said:
Nunca había podido explicar porque las interfaces web que simulan el escritorio me repulsan.. esta es una teoría interesante.
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Moah said:
Interesting point of view regarding web applications. I have argued in my previous job that the web client of the product (WebEx Connect) should not look or behave exactly the same way as the desktop application (mainly baesd on the fact that consistency only for the sake of consistency is worthless). I guess this is another point to keep them distinct.
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Evgeni Vasilev said:
True, true
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Alex Klein said:
this was the most well done blog post i've seen in a month
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jharwig said:
Reminds me of my project. Good points about not mimicking desktop interfaces on the web.
Wisconsin State Journal and Lee Enterprises - Bleaker Than I Thought (1)
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It is time to recognize that the Wisconsin State Journal and its parent company, Lee Enterprises, are on the edge of disaster. The once flourishing Lee Enterprises, $48/share as recently as 2004, is now trading at less than 1 % of that amount, 36 cents a share. The newspapers's editorial policies are starting to make sense. Last Sunday, the Wisconsin State Journal (WSJ) unfairly called upon the city of Madison to solve the Overture problem ...
