Design FuBeating the sh*t out of bad appsA Listy Dilemna- February 18, 2004 GNOME's desktop-devel-list today is just what gnome-hackers list used to be. Its not like this is a new problem. Lists start out good, but then too many people get on them, so we eventually restrict who can be on the list, and then some people think we are too elitist and start a new list. Which is non-elitist and has a high signal to noise ratio... until the effects of non-elitism creep in, and we have these problems all over again. Having a central desktop list seems like a thing that...http://www.gnome.org/~seth/blog//ddl-problems Two Decades of the Macintosh revolution, a reflection- February 17, 2004 January 22, 1984: the Apple Macintosh is unleashed on the world. The world blinks and keeps on turning. The release of the Macintosh wasn't the revolution, it was a symbol of the revolution. It wasn't merely the introduction of an "insanely great" product line but of the debutante ball of the process that birthed it. And at the heart of that process (human-centered design) was a paradigm shift. The question was no longer "What will this computer's specs be" but "What will people do with this...http://www.gnome.org/~seth/blog//macintosh-entry |