by Thomas Otter | December 30, 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 [...]
Category: UI software industry usability visualization Tags: GUI Design Usability
by Thomas Otter | December 23, 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 [...]
Category: UI software industry usability Tags: Canonical, Design, Ubuntu
by Thomas Otter | December 13, 2008 | 4 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 [...]
Category: UI usability Tags: AJAX, formula 1, RIA, software design, UI, users
by Thomas Otter | December 6, 2008 | Comments Off
(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 [...]
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Category: cost optimization software industry visualization Tags: cost optimization, human concepts, Taleo
by Thomas Otter | December 2, 2008 | Comments Off
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 [...]
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Category: software industry usability Tags: nissan GT-R; design;enterprise software
