Through the glass.- May 7, 2008 He watched the paper cup fall on the dusty sidewalk.Dirty little liquid fingers, forced by the incline to ebb towards the gutter.Hurried feet, tip-tapping across the flood.He looked at the cup in his hands.At his own feet.http://www.freegorifero.com/weblog/2008_05_01_weblog_archive.html#2020389159774501161 The product (is the system) is the culture of use.- May 6, 2008 I've been reading with increasing interest the distributed conversation around why it's essential to consider systems and not just products when what really matters in the end is the user experience.Adam Richardson started it all by coining the mantra "The product is the system":"For a product to feel harmonious, the system that surrounds it must be harmonious.".Peter Merholz, picked the ball and ran with it in his "Stop Designing Products" presentation (PDF, 1.2 MB).It was then the turn of ...http://www.freegorifero.com/weblog/2007_02_01_weblog_archive.html#925909581354161892 The beauty of the world.- May 6, 2008 "He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret.He thought the world's heart beat at some terrible cost and that the world's pain and its beauty moved in a relationship of divergent equity and that in this headlong deficit the blood of multitudes might ultimately be exacted for the vision of a single flower."Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horseshttp://www.freegorifero.com/weblog/2008_01_01_weblog_archive.html#2672978894775629653 Finding beauty in the everyday.- May 6, 2008 Mike Bukhin interviewed on Nokia's N-Series blog:"A number of my projects iterate on the same theme, finding beauty in the everyday and giving new perspectives to the ordinary. I want my participants to reevaluate the exceptional moments in their lives - I want them to feel that their everyday life is in fact exceptional. And if they don't feel that their everyday is exceptional, I want to provide them with tools that will help them change.While we are caught up in the minutia of the everyday,..http://www.freegorifero.com/weblog/2008_05_01_weblog_archive.html#7255272395255691409 |