Software versus Content — The Lines Have Blurred
There was a time (and in some people’s minds that time is still today) when people thought of software as a spreadsheet, or a word processor. Or in most cases, with normal human beings, software was something made by geeks that doesn’t really affect their lives in a day-to-day fashion. And even though those of […]
More software is coming — whether we like it or not.
Every new idea in the modern world, every new initiative, just about every effort, public or private, personal or business-related, includes some form of digital expression. Software is the medium for that digital expression. Today, software is everywhere, whether we know it or not. Not just on our computers, our tablets, our phones, and our […]
Bill Gates Post Revisited — The Reactions
Yesterday I posted a story about an interaction I had with Bill Gates when I worked at Microsoft. The gist was that some* engineers overapply the thinking they use in coding to user experience problems and that it results in overly abstracted user interfaces that don’t relate well to human beings who are not as […]
The day Bill Gates called me rude — and other lessons in user experience
There was an almost interminable pause in the conversation, as Bill thought about what I had said. And then he looked up at me after some processing and exclaimed: “That’s just rude.” ~ ~ ~ In November of 2003 it was my job to get Bill Gates on board with the new designs my team […]