by Brian Prentice | August 24, 2010 | 3 Comments
Last week Gartner launched our special report on Application Overhaul (a Gartner subscription is required). There are a number of different facets to this research – how to strategize, modernize, rationalize, standardize, govern and simply the application portfolios managed by enterprises today. I’m the guy working on the simplicity workstream. So, I thought I would [...]
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by Brian Prentice | February 2, 2010 | 10 Comments
For reasons that still stupefy me, Apple seems to be one of the scant few companies in our industry that understands the power of simplicity. This goes way, way beyond user interfaces and gesture recognition. Their skill is both in matching functionality to purpose and being able to identify purposes which are meaningful. That is [...]
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by Brian Prentice | June 23, 2009 | 2 Comments
Form follows function. We’ve heard it often and many of us are probably aware of it’s historic connection with the Bauhaus movement of the early through mid-20th century. One of the key perspectives of the Bauhaus movement was a rejection of the superficial ornamentation so commonly found in the arts, crafts and architecture of the [...]
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by Brian Prentice | January 20, 2009 | Comments Off
Boy oh boy – my digital life just keeps getting better! Just last year, as I was starting to use the MP3 feature of my phone, Apple made me realize I could use the phone feature of my MP3 player. Of course, I’ve been known to listen to music on my GPS device while I’m [...]
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by Brian Prentice | January 11, 2009 | 7 Comments
Some interesting research from J.P. Morgan has been doing the rounds recently. Internet analyst Imran Khan (not to be confused with the legendary Pakistani cricket player of the same name) first looked at the most frequently used search engines and found: He then asked people what it would take to for them switch search engines. [...]
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by Brian Prentice | January 6, 2009 | 1 Comment
Thomas Otter has been posting a number of thoughtful blogs on the topic of user interface design. Design is a topic near and dear to my heart. It is my firmly held view that one of the ramifications of the consumerization of IT is that enterprise IT will either become “design-focused” or it will become [...]
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by Brian Prentice | December 23, 2008 | 4 Comments
Recently I sat down with some senior IT leaders at one of our clients in Melbourne Australia when the topic of discussion, fortuitously, turned to the growing importance of design in IT. It turned out to that they were being called into a meeting that afternoon with their CFO to discuss how the IT department [...]
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