Design Without Designers
Design Without Designers: Donald Norman on the limitations of data-driven and user centered design where radical innovation is concerned. He makes a compelling argument, i’m just not entirely convinced that innovation truly happens in a way where it could be so easily threatened by marginalizing the mythical lone genius designer.
See also this earlier column by Norman for interactions magazine, this response by Nicolas Nova and this recent piece by Wired on the nature and mechanisms of innovation and why our romanticized notion of lone genius inventors is removed from reality.
How Instagram succeeded
Two interesting articles about Instagram‘s success, one by Scoble, one by Rands. I would enjoy Instagram a lot more if more people i cared about did use it as well. I’m not sure how long its appeal will last though…
How to Have an Idea – a semi-sort of comic by Frank Chimero.
more faster horse
Imagine what horses might be like now if science/industry had devoted as much attention to improving them as we’ve devoted to the internal combustion engine and industrial production. Horses would be INCREDIBLE.
