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A productive social business design will require efforts to prune and weed out material that can inhibit its growth (just like a garden)

In fact, HCI is arguably the easiest
discipline within CS in which to work on ICTD research

Thus the pilot is mostly useful
to validate prototypes and assess community reactions. The
understanding of financial sustainability requires a longer trial
with detailed accounting and no hidden subsidies (unless they are
expected to continue at scale);

The purpose of computer metaphors, in general,
and particularly of graphical or icon-oriented ones, is to let
people use recognition rather than recall. People are good at
recognition, but tend to be poor at recall. People can see objects
and operations on the screen, and can manage them quite well.
But when you ask people to remember what string to type to perform
some task, you are counting on one of their weakest abilities.

This idea of progressive
disclosure—providing a great deal of context for everything
you did, and evaporating the context when you were finished—was
extremely important.