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IT Magazine – November 2007
Business leaders everywhere have started caring less and less about how IT guys build an application. All they want to know, early, is what they can expect in their whole experience with the application.
You guessed right. If we were able to have them ‘interact’ with the application even before writing code, they would be more than happy to actually ‘freeze’ their expectations and live up to their word of accepting what we deliver.
What I realise, rather grudgingly, is that it would actually help even us immeasurably, to be able to deliver what we promise. For over a decade now, we’ve been hearing about how look and feel are so important to any software application. IT purists are seemingly out of their depth in this particular area; they relegate it to being the work of graphic designers or, at best interaction designers.
Thinking of look and feel as an end-of-the-pipeline ‘cosmetic’ enhancement is a blunder of gigantic implications. Th ere is something intrinsic—which tells me that beauty is never skin deep—especially about the ‘feel’ part, which requires a paradigm shift.
IT Magazine – October 2007
What is the recipe for that breakthrough product? Innovation or Invention? Hard-core originality or smart thinking on your feet? Read on to discover more about making ‘all the difference’.
We are not talking about Adam here we’re talking about our permanent need to be ‘original’—all the time! “Who wants to do what has been done before, except, of course, when it can qualify as ‘inspiration’ Annu Malik ishtyle!” I have found our obsession for originality to be the single reason for creative paralysis. Designers, geeks, artists… everybody is inflicted.
Cameron Moll says, “Pablo Picasso, the first living artist to be featured in the Louvre, influenced the artistic world in a uniquely original way. So why is he known for saying ‘Good artists copy, great artists steal’?”
“Picasso hardly meant that great artists steal popular designs whose original source is known to everyone,” says Wes George, writer for The Mac Observer.
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