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Onko ”Living Lab” -käsitteellä ylimalkaan jokin hyödyllinen ja omaleimainen merkitys, vai onko se vain stiiknafuuliaa, tyhjänpäiväistä koreilua jolla koetetaan peittää olematon sisältö, kysyy HIITin Martti Mäntylä.
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”Here are five social mobiles, that in different ways modify their users behaviour to make it less disruptive. We have not designed these handsets as actual products – their function is to provoke discussion about the social impact of mobile phones.”
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Entä jos voisit suunnitella kaupunkiympäristösi yhtä helposti kun voit sisustaa? Minkälainen olisi Wikicity? Demos Helsingin ja arkkitehti toimisto NOW:n palkittu kaupunkisuunnitelma esittelee työkaluja näiden visioiden mahdollistamiseksi.
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”I keep hearing horror stories of brands insisting on launching their own social networks. The short version of this post: don’t do it. We really don’t care. Really. We. Don’t. Care.”
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”The definition of Usability for developers: I’ll give you a bonus if you make software that meets out customers needs, is coded as simply and securely as possible, has no known bugs, and works the same way on all the platforms we support.”
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Standards, by themselves, are not in any way equivalent to ”appropriate” or ”good”. They enable one program to understand what has been notated in another program, but they don’t actually dictate a lot about how that code is actually used.
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Beyond Web applications and social media, the nature of the user experiences we design is changing profoundly in other ways that will make ethics and conflict more important concerns for the UX practitioners.