Oleh:"Therefore they can be applied to heuristic evaluation of
OLPC."

To what end? To measure success?

What is the primary goal with the OLPC, a successful 'design', or
to simply satisfy an enormous hunger for learning?

In the same way the UN & RedCross/Cresant dont fly Gordon Ramsey in
to famines when the cost/requirement necessitates something
completely different, it is completely and utterly unnecessary to
perform such an postmortem in this context.  Good design costs money.

The needs, goals, requirements and deliverables are arguably unlike
anything we've come across before.

To Roberts point in the preceding thread about his valid complaints
on the sluggish interaction, one word... $150 (although it should
have been $100) that is the ultimate measure of success of this
project.  Miss that 'heuristic' and the entire project fails.

Dan:"So you feel that everything is contextual, that there are no
universal principles of good design that are always true?"

Let me turn that around, would you argue that Negroponte should have
waited until technology advanced to the point where an iPhone grade
machine could have been delivered to children in developing
countries.  Sorry to turn the conversation back on to the OLPC
specifically, thats how I tend to rationalise and feel free to
generalise back out to universal design principles - regards - pauric


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