Tag Archives: Reading Response

Why The Computer Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet? By Alan Kay “[D]on’t automate the center of your interest, automate the fringes.  Then you can usually get the best of both worlds.” With anything new, typically the practitioners will incorporate the new object into current formats, learn its ways, and then write new languages, formats, and practices [...]

Things that make us smart by Donald A. Norman In reading this article, I thought about learning (or my continued attempts at learning) Mandarin.  So I did a Google search for “Chinese Math”, and I found this article , called Chinese, English speakers do math differently on MSNBC, about the differences in students who are [...]

I really enjoyed the idea that more finished-looking prototypes may surface early in the design process and unfinished-looking prototypes may surface later in the design process.  An interactive environment may be modeled in a computer in very accurate way early in a project, but a very rough estimate of this interactive environment created physically with [...]

A major contributor to the success of the company I worked for prior to coming to Parsons was the use and emphasis on user experience and user feedback.  The company provided a web-based automated publishing system for financial services companies, and this system incorporated content management tools for legal, marketing, and financial groups to manage [...]

Reading this reminded me of the book “Ishmael” by Daniel Quinn.  One of the major things I remember from that book was the idea that you don’t need to remember everything that you have gone through or experienced.  It’s just as (or more) important that you went through a particular experience than it is to [...]