24th
June
2002
“Pre-ordering is the act of ordering your comics at the same time as they are solicited for comics stores to order, two months or so before publication. Orderingcomics.com provides you with a way to easily pre-order the work we consider the best available. Pre-ordering comics, whether through us or through your local comics store, accomplishes many things. It obtains a firm sale for creators of independent and marginal comics. This is crucial. Most creators, and many companies, cannot go straight to graphic novels…”
posted in Comics | Permalink |
24th
June
2002
“A guide to locating events for each day of the year.” Good reference, includes Today’s Date and Time, Astronomical Events, Historical Events and Birthdays, Holidays and Festivals, The Religious Year, Timelines, The History of the Calendar and Clocks and Create a Calendar.
posted in Et cetera | Permalink |
24th
June
2002
“[Craig] Vogel is a professor of design. With Jonathan Cagan, a mechanical-engineering professor at the university, he teaches a course in product development. The two academics research and consult on the subject of new product design for such companies as Ford Motor, Motorola, and Whirlpool. This is what they’ve learned so far: Companies don’t do a very good job of developing new products.”
posted in Industrial design | Permalink |
24th
June
2002
“[Alan] Cooper’s view is that the kinds of disasters that have always plagued the industry — most recently, the catastrophic outcomes of many CRM (customer relationship management) systems — are a result neither of poor strategy, nor of poor engineering, but of a failure to properly coordinate the two. The missing piece in his view is product planning and design, done according to a methodology that Cooper has devised and that his company practices.”
posted in Interaction design | Permalink |
24th
June
2002
“[Alan] Cooper’s view is that the kinds of disasters that have always plagued the industry — most recently, the catastrophic outcomes of many CRM (customer relationship management) systems — are a result neither of poor strategy, nor of poor engineering, but of a failure to properly coordinate the two. The missing piece in his view is product planning and design, done according to a methodology that Cooper has devised and that his company practices.”
posted in Personas/Scenarios | Permalink |
