User Experience and Cognitive Engineering

Entries categorized as ‘Innovation’

Innovation Par 1: Why Silicon Valley

July 9, 2007 · Leave a Comment

LeRoi Gourhan, a French Anthropologist, observed that during pre-historic times there was a close relationship between the evolution of the human brain and the hand. In science, the experimentation plays the role of the hand. There is a close relationship between new observations and new scientific ideas.

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Categories: Gallileo · HCI · Human Computer Interaction · Innovation · Larry Tesler · Michelson-Morley · Newton · Wright Brothers · cognitive group

Gartner got it all wrong again on the iPhone

June 30, 2007 · 1 Comment

Gartner provides obscurantist research analysis and reports for IT professionals.

Over the years they have been consistently wrong:

- They recommended IT managers to choose OS2 over windows

- In September 2001 they recommended that companies using Microsoft IIS for web hosting should switch to alternative products in light of increasing Internet worm attacks

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Categories: Apple · Gartner · InformationWeek · Innovation · Iphone · Steve Jobs