Archive for November, 2010

Principles of Design #7 – Freeze-Flight-Fight-Forfeit

Nov 23 2010 Published by Neil Gains under design

“The fact that people will be full of fear, greed or folly is predictable.  The sequence is not predictable.”  - Warren Buffett Read more »

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Principles of Design #6 – Aesthetic-Usability Effect

Nov 19 2010 Published by Neil Gains under design

“Attractive things work better … When you wash and wax a car, it drives better, doesn’t it? Or at least feels like it does.”  - Donald Norman Read more »

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Super-Organism Bets Against the House

Nov 16 2010 Published by Neil Gains under disruption

A flock of birds gives the appearance of being wonderfully synchronized. Most people assume the bird at the front is leading the flock. When you see a trail of ants it is tempting to think of the queen sending out her drones. In our immune systems, we think of armies of antibodies under the control of our surgeon general of wellbeing. Read more »

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We Are All (Syn)Aesthetes

Nov 09 2010 Published by Neil Gains under sensory

“When I see equations, I see the letters in colors – I don’t know why. As I’m talking, I see vague pictures of Bessel functions, with light-tan j’s, slightly violet-bluish n’s, and dark brown x’s flying around. And I wonder what the hell it must look like to the students.”  - Richard Feynman Read more »

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