“Groove is Internet communications software that allows people with shared interests to make direct connections for real-time interaction. Groove moves beyond the World Wide Web paradigm, leveraging the two-way capabilities of the Internet to provide a peer computing platform for use by individuals and small groups, in both a business and personal context.”
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The Game”After all I’ve learned from my computer, the latest lesson was still a shock: I’m a miserable failure. At least at running a start-up tech company. Thanks to the French PC game ‘Start-Up 2000,’ a business-management program produced by the Paris-based ht
“Information design is defined as the art and science of preparing information so that it can be used by human beings with efficiency and effectiveness.” From Chapter 2, in Information Design, ed. by Robert Jacobson, MIT Press, 1999.
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“It takes Joseph Baron just 20 PowerPoint slides to communicate his young company’s promise: the vision, the competitive landscape, the ‘white space of opportunity.’ … Of course, Baron also has a detailed business plan, densely packed with competitive analyses, revenue projections and partner pedigrees. That’s the core document. But he wouldn’t dream of making the rounds without a PowerPoint presentation on his laptop hard drive.” PowerPoints are unforgivingly nasty and usually ineffective and you deserve all the trouble you get — and all the money you don’t — for not treating your important, unique information in an important, unique way.
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“It takes Joseph Baron just 20 PowerPoint slides to communicate his young company’s promise: the vision, the competitive landscape, the ‘white space of opportunity.’ … Of course, Baron also has a detailed business plan, densely packed with competitive analyses, revenue projections and partner pedigrees. That’s the core document. But he wouldn’t dream of making the rounds without a PowerPoint presentation on his laptop hard drive.” PowerPoints are unforgivingly nasty and usually ineffective and you deserve all the trouble you get — and all the money you don’t — for not treating your important, unique information in an important, unique way.
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“This module attempts to cover all aspects of the process of designing, implementing, and evaluating user interfaces. Inputs to the process include the results of requirements analysis for the system, although this module has some coverage of task analysis, requirements analysis of the human components of systems. Outputs of the process include systems of software and user documentation, however more detailed coverage of documentation should be sought elsewhere, and the module contains little coverage of field-testing of usability over the long-term maintenance of systems.” Note: From November 1989.
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