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“At the heart of any good user-centred design process is the practice of prototyping. By creating and testing interfaces in rough format, designers are able to feed through improvements and feedback from users quickly and easily. This in turn helps to ensure a final product that is an evolved solution, in the sense that it has been through a number of iterations and emerged as fit for the job in question.”

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“Most corporate intranets are born around a conference room table, with a bevy of expectations heaped upon them from the moment of conception. The human resource department wants employee self-service and document distribution; sales and marketing requires a portal environment for accessing customer information, sales presentations, and up-to-date product information; upper-level management envisions a communications and data conduit linking global operations and partners — while the members of the IT department find themselves cracking open another package of Tums as hundreds, or even thousands, of Web pages flash before their eyes.”

“Gabion is an illustrated archive of critical writing on architecture, design and related topics by Hugh Pearman. …Gabion is the site of Hugh Pearman, London-based architecture and design critic. Hugh has been attached to The Sunday Times, London, since 1986, writes for a wide range of other design and consumer titles, is the author of several books, and frequently teaches and lectures. What you find here is a selection — by no means exhaustive — of his writings in various media, including the full, uncut versions of articles previously published in The Sunday Times.”

“So great was the response to our recent appeal for the world’s longest email disclaimer that we have decided to celebrate the best of the bunch in six categories. The organisations responsible will be awarded a coveted Vulture Central ‘Dafta’ for their contribution to international timewasting: *Longest Disclaimer; Most Incomprehensible Disclaimer; *Most PC Disclaimer; *Best Bi-lingual Disclaimer; *Best Spoof Disclaimer; *Special Award for Best WWW Disclaimer.”

“It’s not the sort of house you’d expect to find in a leafy New Jersey town: a big, galvanized-steel shed that would seem more at home in an industrial park. But that’s only the beginning. Lift up one of the shed’s big garage doors, and you find a tiny clapboard cottage — much more in keeping with this part of the world — at one end of the cavernous space. But at the other end is a 27-foot-high, 33-foot-wide grid of nine rooms that looks like a cross between a 1950’s elementary school and the set of ‘Hollywood Squares…’”

“Gabion is an illustrated archive of critical writing on architecture, design and related topics by Hugh Pearman. …Gabion is the site of Hugh Pearman, London-based architecture and design critic. Hugh has been attached to The Sunday Times, London, since 1986, writes for a wide range of other design and consumer titles, is the author of several books, and frequently teaches and lectures. What you find here is a selection — by no means exhaustive — of his writings in various media, including the full, uncut versions of articles previously published in The Sunday Times.”