X posted from the Agile Usability mailing list. Stewart Brand was the creator of the Whole Earth catalog which was an inspiration for Steve Jobs, Wikipedia, and Wired magazine. Steve Jobs said of the catalog that "It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions."
Christopher Alexander even though an architect came up with the concept in programming of patterns and anti-patterns. > People may be interested in these documentaries by Stewart Brand. Even > though the documentaries where made in 90's they seam very very now. > http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8639555925486210852 Kevin Kelly on his blog says about the program. Stewart Brand says architecture is a prediction, and all predictions are > wrong, so the more monumental the architecture, the more wrong the building > is. There is a great interview with Christopher Alexander http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Alexander . It seams that his technique of architecture seams almost agile. James ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Scott Preece Date: Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 9:00 PM Subject: Re: [agile-usability] Re: How building learn To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Six S's diagram - the multiple aspects of the building that change at different rates and need to be fixed at different times - is one of my favorites. It's fun to discuss how the Ss (site, skin, structure, services, surfaces, stuff) map to software concepts, or don't. scott On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 7:02 AM, Ashim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Coincidently, this was posted yesterday on the "Putting People First" blog. > Hope this adds something useful to the list.. > > Science Fiction and HCI/ Interaction Design > http://www.experientia.com/blog/science-fiction-and-hciinteraction-design/ > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
