Vincent Gable’s Blog

February 15, 2010

Usability Problems are Cultural

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― Vincent Gable on February 15, 2010

Obstacles to getting real feedback are now mainly cultural, not technological; any business that isn’t learning from their users doesn’t want to learn from their users.

Clay Shirky, on Meetup’s Dead Simple User Testing

February 9, 2010

This Usually Makes Me Feel Better

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― Vincent Gable on February 9, 2010

February 6, 2010

All Your Facebook Friend’s Phone Numbers

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― Vincent Gable on February 6, 2010

http://www.facebook.com/friends/?filter=pfp

That’s the link to all your facebook-friend’s phone numbers.

Every time I see one of those “I need ya phone numbers” things on facebook I post that link. Please do the same. At least until the phone companies fix the real problem by automatically backing up contacts from the phone “in the cloud

February 4, 2010

Deus Ex Ignorantia

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― Vincent Gable on February 4, 2010
Felten’s Third Law
Given an intractable and complex policy problem, people tend to look to areas they are not experts in to save the day.

For example,

Given a difficult technology policy problem, lawyers will tend to seek technology solutions and technologists will tend to seek legal solutions. … It’s easy to reject non-solutions in your own area because you have the knowledge to recognize why they will fail; but there must be a solution lurking somewhere in the unexplored wilderness of the other area.

Ed Felton.

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