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“I was raised and schooled in India where uniforms were a mandate in most public schools. Despite the imposed conformity, kids always found a way to bend the rules and flaunt a little personality. Boys rolled up their sleeves, wore over-sized swatches, and hiked up their pants to show off their high-tops. Girls obsessed over bangles, bindis and bad hairdos. Peaking through the sea of uniforms were the idiosyncrasies of teen style and individual flare. I now want to put the same rules to test again, only this time I'm trading in the catholic school fervor for an eBay addiction and relocating the school walls to this wonderful place called the internet.” - × × ×

# Real-time data collection is letting scientists find colleagues, related and recommended research in a matter of hours, instead of months or years, using software from a UK company called Mendeley. Mendeley is like iTunes or Last.fm for scientific research, the company even has the founder of Last.fm on its team. # Warner Brothers uses an Adobe AIR app they built to track traffic on artists’ websites, media mentions and more, in real time. Catching data spikes in real time allows them to turn on a dime with marketing and product strategies. # The RedCross national headquarters (and I’m sure a lot of local offices) use real-time systems to monitor breaking news about disasters around the world and co-ordinate volunteers. Work that used to take weeks is now done in minutes or hours – that means saved lives. - × × ×

Стоит посмотреть все, там самые разные способы отслеживания — и камерами, и сенсорами, и по жестам и по движению. Очень. - × × ×

“Note that the greatest number of users had an average of less than 5 tabs open at a time. The vast majority of the area under the green curve is in the region below 10 tabs. However, the maximum tabs curve just keeps going and going; this plot stops at 30 but there are plenty of users who have many more than 30 tabs open at a maximum. So while 10 tabs or less may be the most common state, there's effectively no upper bound on how many tabs people do open at a time.“ - × × ×

«В случае "обманутого" клиента, которому недодали микротипографики или нашлёпали ошибок и опечаток, о криминальности речи не идёт. Но именно мелкие ошибки, т.е. недоработки, играют роль того самого разбитого окна, деморализуя клиента. Обманутый в лучших чувствах, он может уйти не только сам, но и увести с собой всех тех, кого он привёл, всех тех, кому рассказывал хорошее. Первый вывод, который делают обиженные таков, что если фирма не в состоянии как следует позаботиться о деталях и мелочах, то будет явно не в состоянии поставить на ноги что-то большее и значимое. ¶ Итак, если Ваш непосредственный руководитель закатывает глазки, когда Вы пытаетесь ему объяснить, что микро-работу нельзя просто так заметать под половик в надежде, что клиент всё рано ничего не заметит и не оценит, и Вам нужно на завершение работы ещё как минимум 2 часа, расскажите ему про теорию разбитого окна, не забывая отдать в итоге отличный, максимально вылизанный результат.» #практический_перфекционизм - × × ×

Соль на раны. - mindszenty

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Презентация к вводной лекции по дизайну интерфейсов. Кратко рассматриваются основы интерактивного и графического дизайна. - × × ×

“I’ve had a chance to look around the service for a few weeks, and the idea seems like a very solid one. Here’s a perfect use case: I don’t have a vacuum cleaner, but someone I know does, and they’re sharing it on NeighborGoods, and it’s available, why not just borrow it? You simply click a button, fill out a pick up date and time, a return date and time, and then send the sharing request. If the person who owns the vacuum approves, you’re all set. So, how do you stop shady people from stealing your stuff? Well a core idea behind NeighborGoods is to offer “Verified neighbors.” Basically, you send NeighborGoods your address and they mail (as in physically mail, not email) a special code to you there. Once you are verified at that address, you will have a special red check box over your avatar, so people know that you can be held accountable if you borrow something.” - × × ×

См. также: http://lalawag.com/neighbo... - × × ×

“As you probably noticed, we have a new design. Our goal with it is to highlight our most exciting, provocative, anomalous, and newsworthy posts, even after they've floated down the blog river off the front page. So, please do check out the "display case" of featured stories at the top and right of the site. Speaking of features, there will be more of those. Of course, we'll keep curating and contextualizing the most interesting things we find online, but we're also going back to bOING bOING's 'zine roots by presenting originally-reported articles. Who's writing those? We are, and the "we" is expanding in marvelous ways. We're thrilled to have several fantastic, and familiar, voices joining us on the front page.” - × × ×