Thank You AIIA For Your Response…But You’re Still Wrong
The day before yesterday I posted the response by Ian Birks, CEO of the AIIA, to my blog on the recent changes to intellectual property rights (IPR) considerations in Australian Commonwealth and State...
View ArticleBarnes & Noble to Microsoft – Bring It On!
It’s gotten to the point where patent infringement actions in the mobile technology market are about as numerous as offshoots of The Real Housewives reality TV series. And the patents which feature so...
View ArticleRemove Features Your Users Don’t Want – Not That You Don’t Want
Ah, serendipity. It’s 5am. I’ve been up for the last two hours. It seems the Tylenol PM didn’t do it’s job of knocking me out senseless for the 8 hours I needed to avoid the jet-lagged induced fog I’ll...
View ArticleWelcome iCloud – Now Prepare To Meet Your Enterprise IT Detractors
Personally, I think Apple’s new iCloud service is brilliant. Personally, I’ll be making heavy use of it. Personally, I like the idea of being able to synchronise contacts across devices. Personally,...
View ArticleWhy Will “Zero Email” Policies Fail? Bureaucracy!
There’s been a lot of discussion lately about Atos’ CEO Theirry Breton’s plan to implement a zero email policy for internal communications. According to Breton, only 10% of emails received per day are...
View ArticleMy New iPad Buying Experience
Daddy’s got a new iPad! I just got it home. Since I live in Australia, I guess I’m one of the first. And the experience I had getting it was a lesson in retail done right. Heck, it was an example of...
View ArticleA Quick Thought On Facebook’s Instagram Acquisition
One BILLION dollars! It’s hard to fathom that type of money without putting my pinky to the corner of my mouth. I’m prepared to give Facebook’s management the benefit of the doubt. I think they have...
View ArticleAustralia’s Parliament Is Asking The Wrong Questions On Price Gouging
I guess I should be delighted to hear that the Australian Parliament is going to start examining the reasons why Australian businesses and consumers are paying huge mark ups on on technology products...
View ArticleiPhone 5…Meh
There, I said it. Actually, I was toying with two other titles; “iPhone 5, The Emperor Has No Clothes,” or “iPhone 5, What’s In A Name That A Phone By Another Other Would Operate The Same.” Look, I’ve...
View ArticleThe Post-Apple WWDC Icon Obsession Belies An Appreciation of UX Design
The series of tubes we affectionately know as the internet has been abuzz over the last week with talk of Apple’s flat design detour with iOS7. As with anything aesthetic, there’s bound to be be the...
View ArticleBreaking Through the Enterprise-UX Disconnect
Let’s face it. Enterprise software is the land that UX design forgot. Whether it’s an internal enterprise application development team, or the R&D department of an enterprise software vendor, the...
View ArticleDigital Humanism At Google
Last month, at Gartner Symposium, we introduced the concept of digital humanism. This concept emerged after reflecting on the profound philosophical considerations that will be driven in an era of...
View ArticleOver-Engineering 2.0 – Incessant, Thoughtless Automation
Here’s a prediction. By 2017, the single biggest way in which digital technology will annoy people is through thoughtless, intrusive and annoying algorithmic automation. Let’s call it Over-engineering...
View ArticleThe IT Industry’s 95% Problem
I just had a chance to read Chris O’Brien’s informative piece on VentureBeat titled “Evernote’s 5% problem offers a cautionary lesson to tech companies”. The article examines how Evernote ended up with...
View ArticleIt’s Time To Retire The Term “User Experience Design”
We’ve hit the point were the term “User Experience Design” has become counterproductive. It is obfuscating to the world outside the user experience design community that something important and...
View ArticleMy New iPad Buying Experience
Daddy’s got a new iPad! I just got it home. Since I live in Australia, I guess I’m one of the first. And the experience I had getting it was a lesson in retail done right. Heck, it was an example of...
View ArticleA Quick Thought On Facebook’s Instagram Acquisition
One BILLION dollars! It’s hard to fathom that type of money without putting my pinky to the corner of my mouth. I’m prepared to give Facebook’s management the benefit of the doubt. I think they have...
View ArticleAustralia’s Parliament Is Asking The Wrong Questions On Price Gouging
I guess I should be delighted to hear that the Australian Parliament is going to start examining the reasons why Australian businesses and consumers are paying huge mark ups on on technology products...
View ArticleiPhone 5…Meh
There, I said it. Actually, I was toying with two other titles; “iPhone 5, The Emperor Has No Clothes,” or “iPhone 5, What’s In A Name That A Phone By Another Other Would Operate The Same.” Look, I’ve...
View ArticleThe Post-Apple WWDC Icon Obsession Belies An Appreciation of UX Design
The series of tubes we affectionately know as the internet has been abuzz over the last week with talk of Apple’s flat design detour with iOS7. As with anything aesthetic, there’s bound to be be the...
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