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Entries from December 2008

Continuing on the GT-R and GUIs theme.

December 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment

A few weeks ago I posted about GUIs and steering wheels, and before that on the designer of the Nissan GT-R’s relentless focus on detail. Another thing struck me about the GT-R – the dashboard design.

At the Tokyo Auto Show, Nissan honcho Carlos Ghosn unveiled the GT-R. The car, which hits the US next [...]

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Tags: UI · software industry · usability · visualization

Learning from Ubuntu and Canonical

December 23rd, 2008 · 5 Comments

Warning I’m definitely not an expert in open source operating systems. (George is)
Readers of this blog will have noted that I have an interest in design thinking. A good portion of my Christmas wish list is made up of books on design, and I will continue to inflict more of my design inspired ramblings [...]

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Tags: UI · software industry · usability

Steering wheels and application UIs.

December 13th, 2008 · 3 Comments

The Benz museum in Ladenburg is a regular haunt of mine. In walking distance of my house I can see one the of the first cars ever made.

It is one of the finest collection of vintage and significant cars as you will find anywhere, other than at the other Benz  museum in Stuttgart. It [...]

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Tags: UI · usability

measuring twice, cutting once.

December 6th, 2008 · No Comments

 
(photo from English Cut, one day, I hope to have a suit made there)
There is a lot of excellent cost optimization research going on here at Gartner, and as you would expect it was a key theme at the recent symposium.
My small contribution to the research collection is a note called Workforce Analytics Skills Are [...]

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Tags: cost optimization · software industry · visualization

Polishing cars and software

December 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

From the excellent cc flickrstream of stevelyon Thanks.
I live in Ladenburg, Karl Benz’s home town, so there is probably something slightly sacrilegious posting about the fabulously awesomely brilliant new Nissan GT-R.
I read the metacool blog regularly,  he is one of the leading thinkers on design, and his blog is full of interesting thoughts on [...]

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Tags: software industry · usability