Monthly Archives: January 2009

Wanna get rich? Give away everything for free!

Just had a very entertaining discussion on Twitter with my colleague Rick Mans about the definition of Cloud Computing: whether the pay-per-use model is an essential part of this cloud thingy yes or no. Rick ended with a nice reply: I know I’m taking it now a bit out of its original context (but that is also as a punishment to Rick for his hideous background :-p) but I’d like to disagree with that. “Free” …

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| Posted on by lprovoos in Web | 8 Comments

RDV: a pressure cooker for usable business applications

In this “it is all about me and my personal needs” web era where users of online applications are expecting ever higher quality and usability, it is becoming ever more difficult for application designers to meet these requirements. There really is only one sensible and effective way of achieving a high degree of user acceptance: involve the users in the design of the user interface that is aimed at them. You need their feedback as …

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| Posted on by mnankman in User Experience | 9 Comments

Poor you, you’ll never see it coming

It has been quite a while since my last post, but I blame it on the “midlife crisis-menopause-postnatal stress” kind of life changing moment when you become 27 that caused a small writer’s block. That together with the fact that I traveled through half of Europe in the past three weeks with often limited connection. But it gave me lots of time to think about the meaning of life and the new things that have …

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| Posted on by lprovoos in User Experience | 2 Comments

Trying to escape paper’s enormous shadow

The message is quite simple: do not replace paper because it is paper. Replace it because it adds values. You can replace forms with an online variant, however you should still add value to make it a success. Just implement something technical since it can is not a good thing

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| Posted on by Rick Mans in Uncategorized Tagged , , , | | 3 Comments

Putting your social media on steroids?

All around me I see new social sites being created. Companies, organizations and governments have all become convinced of the use and value of crowd wisdom. Much investment is put into the development of new social applications for customers, employees, members and citizens. I have said it before: social media is blazing hot right now. To back this, I have collected some stats: Facebook has over 140 million users and gets 600.000 new members each …

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| Posted on by mnankman in Social | 4 Comments