After catching-up on all the topics and discussions from the vuids group that came out around the Holiday season, the idea that seemed to kept coming up was that it’s still very hard (if not harder) for designers to get designs done right, mostly due to external reasons (things sold the wrong way, business requirements, picky customers, etc.) and particularly when businesses don’t want to pay attention to what designers have to say.
Furthermore, the idea of picking the *right* technology for the job (touchtone, speech, SLMs, or plain-old agents) is the right idea yet not widely supported (by sales people in particular).
Therefore I wanted to share with you this jewel from TED by David Pogue which I just recently ran across which reinforces the point that “simplicity sells”. Funny to think it’s a couple of years old, but keeps being as true now as it was back then. In particular, I loved the part about Palm having a “tap counter” to make sure no task required more than a limited number of taps on a Palm device, which makes me wonder if our projects wouldn’t benefit from having a “word counter”, a “choices counter” and a “menu levels counter”
Enjoy!