“You simply can not have a strong design if you have to please too many people. And you don’t want that anyway. A good design won’t please everyone, and it’s never perfect. It’s better to have four ecstatic people and one person who’s really pissed off; even if that person is your CEO.”

Luonto-Liitto ja Voima-lehti järjestivät kolmatta kertaa vastamainoskilpailun, joka haastoi kritisoimaan kulutuskulttuuria huumorilla ja mainosmaailman omalla kielellä.

What you need to do to ensure that your emails not only look great in today’s email clients but also actually make it to where they’re going. If only my email senders would read this. Maybe I should send the link… hmm…

“While vendors do have to draw the line somewhere with the filetypes and application versions that they will continue to support, refusing to provide security related fixes for serious vulnerabilities is a failure of their duty of care to their users.”

“Many users have been conditioned into thinking that a tightening of security means reduced usability.”

In nearly all European countries and in all age groups, men are more regular users of both computers and the internet than women. But did you know that the differences are bigger among younger generation?

Benefits of €35-85 billion over 5 years could be generated if society would be made more inclusive, websites more accessible and broadband Internet made available to all EU citizens.

Interface Research survey is brought to you by students at the Art Institute of Atlanta. Some of the results might be surprising.

A few of the basics to help those out there just getting started in the field.

“Because we have fewer facts on which we can rely in judging the level of trust we should place in another person, our approach to the formation of an online trust relationship is more progressive than it might be in offline interpersonal relationships.”

“Even if you feel smug for never having joined Facebook, unless you anonymize all your web browsing sessions, refuse to use or accept cookies, turn off images (in case one of them is a ‘tracker GIF’), Big Advertising already has your number.”

Menestys työelämässä ei selity pelkällä kontaktiverkoston olemassaololla vaan oleellista on se, millaisia voimavaroja ja yhteyksiä näiden sosiaalisten sidosten avulla on mahdollista saada.

I’ll be 70 before I have time to read all the books I want to read…

“Simplicity beats out features. I’m not going to say ‘less is more’, because I don’t believe the iPhone IS less. It’s more, simplified.”

Six Degrees of Social Web is a model that identifies six degrees or stages of relationship. As users progress from “newbie” to more mature relationships, they will look for different things from the site.

“Our details are dangerous. They can lead us to focus on design issues, while missing the large strategic issues where user-experience analysis can make the greatest contribution.”

“Microsoft doesn’t seem to understand the engineering art of leaving things out. Instead of making tough choices, the company just loaded in apparent features that did very little.”

Wired News peeks into product design with Frog Design, a Palo Alto consultancy. The first six slides take you from the discovery phases to the final working prototype and the final five look at the machines and material used in the process. A good read.

Smashing Magazine presents some of the outstanding recent developments in the field of user experience design. Most techniques may seem very futuristic, but they are reality. And in fact, they are extremely impressive.

I can’t think of anything less sexy than intranet IA, but Nielsen’s got a point anyway.

Yet another nice little interview with Mr. Norman – yep, he has just published a new book…