Compendious.
Surfaced by JR Carpenter.
Still, I have difficulties finding a site or an app, that actually addresses the users, and sees their presence as a part of the work flow. This maybe sounds strange, because all web 2.0 is about pushing people to contribute, and “emotional design” is supposed to be about establishing personal connections in between people who made the app and people who bought it, but I mean something different. I mean a situation when the work flow of an application has gaps that can be filled by users, where smoothness and seamlessness are broken and some of the final links in the chain are left for the users to complete.
Adaptive textbooks debuting at CES this week (8 Jan13). I'm bothered by the surveillance element. It seems to me an equivalent functionality can be (and has been) achieved by skimming. I think its procedurality teaches students to depend on software in disturbing ways. At the cost of sharing private usability information.
“Everything that you do is being tracked and it assesses you throughout”"