March 2011
“Male literacy in Afghanistan stands at 43 percent, female at 13 percent. How do...”
– Frog Design’s Jan Chipchase on How the Poor Can Least Afford Bad Design - NYTimes.com
“The combination of all these elements causes a sense of deep enjoyment that is...”
– The Dào of Search » Search as a flow experience
February 2011
“As consumers of business applications, we now expect them to be as simple as...”
– The Mobile App Internet Wags The IT Dog: A Post For Content & Collaboration Professionals | Forrester Blogs
“Participants then rated either the imagined apology or actual apology on a scale...”
– How Powerful is an Apology? — PsyBlog
“People who do surf the Internet for fun at work - within a reasonable limit of...”
– Freedom to surf: workers more productive if allowed to use the internet for leisure : News : The University of Melbourne
“Asking better questions is really just a clever way to steal from the rich and...”
– The Art and Science of Asking Better Questions - Farnam Street
“User comprehension scores on the Cloze test were 48% of the desktop level when...”
– Mobile Content Is Twice as Difficult (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)
“Hunt says more devices will be added in the summer of 2011, and the goal is to...”
– Streaming video largely lacks accessibility for the deaf; Netflix is working on it | Tech Policy & Law News - Betanews
“This makes you think that what made television so evil back when it was evil was...”
– How the Internet Gets Inside Us : The New Yorker
“at any given moment, our most complicated machine will be taken as a model of...”
– How the Internet Gets Inside Us : The New Yorker
“If all you have is a hammer, the saying goes, everything looks like a nail; and,...”
– How the Internet Gets Inside Us : The New Yorker
“Indeed, Gallup research across a range of industries — from online retail...”
– The Constant Customer
“Our main leisure activity is, by a long shot, participating in experiences that...”
– The Pleasures of Imagination - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
“The startup charges 100 yen, or $1.22, to digitize a book and produce PDFs...”
– In Cramped Japan, the iPad Is the Home Library - BusinessWeek
“People using the more difficult interfaces tended to perform better, were less...”
– The Dark Side Of Usability
“For instance, he ran the data on the locations where ambulances picked up...”
– Lower Costs and Better Care for Neediest Patients : The New Yorker
“For 94% of the problems the group’s final answer was the first answer that was...”
– What Makes Them Click » Blog Archive » 100 Things You Should Know About People: #64 — Groups Are Swayed By A Dominant Personality
“For starters, a wide variety of social situations in the field can be lubricated...”
– Future Perfect » Mobile Money Afghanistan
““The mobile phone makes love marriages possible,” he says. “young people can now...”
– Future Perfect » Mobile Money Afghanistan
“If there is one word that makes creative people different from others, it is the...”
– Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (via psychotherapy)
“In an interview with Wired magazine, Csíkszentmihályi described flow as...”
– Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Everything becomes a community, it turns out”
– Tom Hume: LIFT 2011
“…Pfeffer came up with seven personal qualities that help to build power:...”
– Why Performance Won’t Get You Promoted - Farnam Street
“There is something in the air. A general feeling. If you make things for the...”
– Frank Chimero - The Manual
“There will be times when your Yes needs to be unencumbered by reality, where it...”
– Rands In Repose: A Disclosure
“Amateur musicians, for example, tend to spend their practice time playing music,...”
– US Memory Champ Joshua Foer: What Differentiates Amateurs and Top Achievers - Farnam Street
“Being a community manager is like being a piñata. People beat you with sticks...”
– LukeW | An Event Apart: Shepherding Passionate Communities
“Kevin shares this great quote from the Count of Monte Cristo:
“I have...”
– Seth’s Blog: The danger of repeating signals
“As the world embraces its digital age — two billion people now use the Internet...”
– Much of Rural America Still Struggles With Broadband Access - NYTimes.com
“Our recent research on how college students use the Web found that students...”
– Non-Profit Organization Websites: Increasing Donations and Volunteering (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)
“This point about losing oral culture has some relevance for RSA Connected...”
– When Amy went Gdala : RSA Projects
“If you want your product to sell you have to start with focusing on transitions,...”
– If you want your product to sell, focus on memorable experiences | inspireUX
“We have this history at Meetup, we make big bets. It’s woven into the DNA of...”
– Scott Heiferman looks back at Meetup’s bet-the-company moment - (37signals)
“Indeed, often it is the over-reaction, not the scale of the threat, that matters...”
– Opinion: What Can Soccer Teach Us About Fighting Terrorism? | Truman National Security Project
“To the semi-colon”, which “in a world of simplified communications and...”
– FT.com / Books / Non-Fiction - Tariq Ramadan’s ‘Quest for Meaning’
“We would rather believe that our leaders are foolish and incompetent (which they...”
– The Paradox of Leadership and the Art of War - Farnam Street
“The history of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three...”
– The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams (via formattedfreedom)
“But there is another dimension to this: software as an organizing principle....”
– Connecting to the (Mobile) World Congress | Blog | design mind
“At a more generic level, the Egyptian events are the latest exclamation mark...”
– Connecting to the (Mobile) World Congress | Blog | design mind
“If you don’t need access to the device’s hardware, for example the camera, you...”
– Mobile Web Apps – Good for business but are they good for UX? « cvil.ly 