Tagged “innovation”
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Invisible tools
A good tool is an invisible tool. By invisible, we mean that the tool does not intrude on your consciousness; you focus on the task, not the tool…Good tools enhance invisibility.
…Unfortunately, our common metaphors for computer interaction lead us away from the invisible tool, and towards making the tool the center of attention.
…magic is about psychology and salesmanship, and I believe a dangerous model for good design and productive technology. The proof is in the details—magic ignores them. Furthermore magic continues to glorify itself— Mark Weiser, The World Is Not A Desktop, ACM Interactions, January 1994 See also: Not invented here
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Not invented here
On rolling your own tools/technology:
Use an off the shelf tool until you break it, until you hit its edges, then look for a solution. If that solution requires you to build something, then you have permission to build it, but only building out just enough to solve your creative issue.
— Craig Mod, Roden Issue 050 -
Maintenance, not disruption
Webstock ‘18: Lee Vinsel - The Innovation Fetish
It is more obvious that many of the pressing problems of our time are failures of maintenance: politics doesn’t need disruption, democracy needs maintenance; climate change will be solved by going into serious and prolonged maintenance of the only planet we have inherited, not by vague magical thinking that assigns responsibility to future innovations.
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