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Jef
Raskin wrote: When
crashing around the Web, I ran into the 22 Feb 2000 interview
with Alan Cooper. Nodding my head in agreement as I went
along, I came to an abrupt stop when this icon of design said,
"We believe that good design is self-evident."
If
you believe that, then you are stuck in a rut, because the value
of deep improvements are rarely self-evident, read
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In reply to John Coppinger who suggested "Cooperisms
must end", David Fore of Cooper
Interaction Design wrote: I feel compelled to take issue
with his assertion that "If every task involved so few variables
as driving a car or writing a book, then there would be no need
for computers." Think about the visual information *alone* that
you must monitor during a few moments behind the wheel. The
velocity of your car, your rate of acceleration as you pass
that Volvo, the arc of the turn you're making around that bend,
your constantly changing position with respect to that motorcycle,
the fast-approaching cliff over which you will surely fly if
you don't stop messing with the confused and confusing interface
of your cell phone. read
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Iván Socolsky suggests some alternatives for a Web MVC architecture:
I've thought of an alternative way to keep track of the user
state: store it in a distributed fashion in the client's browser.
This means passing the "context" (the context contains all attributes
necessary to describe the current state of the system) to the
client to be included in every link (get and post). This way,
every request to the server could be treated as a new request
with no need to remember a history of states or a session id.
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A
reader from Finland suggests that Rational Unified Process
is the death of UI Design - uidesign.net agrees!: I'm
of the impression that people are trying to save my company's
software process by applying uml+rose to design software. I'm
also worried it would make UI design retired. read
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Ken
Ritchie suggests that Together is a better tool for OVID:
If Dave [Roberts] were using Together, he'd be able to link
states to pictures (and to as many other files and/or model
elements as he cares to). And those links are directly accessible
in generated html docs and through the diagram speed-menu "Hyperlink
to..." sub-menu. read
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