321Blog"Intro. to Science, Technology, and Society," a course taught by <a href="http://www.smagula.net">Stefan Smagula</a>, University of Texas at Austintag:blogger.com,1999:blog-101824022006-12-09T10:36:01ZBlogger
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trueStefan Smagula2006-12-08T18:52:00-06:002006-12-09T10:33:24Z2006-12-09T01:20:59Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10182402.post-116562725997680275Video of Alan Cooper on Software Design
Stock Exchange of Visions Alan Cooper and others talk about design and software. Click on "Culture" then "Design" (when will Flash output 'scene' URL's on right-click?!)
All software must be designed, most software today is not designed.
--Alan Cooper
Alan Cooper founded the user experience and software design consulting firm known as Cooper. He's also written a couple of books, The Inmates arefalseStefan Smagula2006-12-04T22:09:00-06:002006-12-09T10:36:01Z2006-12-05T04:34:01Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10182402.post-116529324199860515"Emotional Design," or the Relationship Between Function and Spirit Donald Norman's Keynote from Etech Conference, 2004 (Streaming MP3)
"For years I did "making things usable" and I discovered that it was kind of peculiar because in my life I would go out and buy things that I knew didn't work--but they were so attractive I wanted them anyway."
--Donald NormanIn this lecture delivered in 2004, Donald Norman tells us that he figured out why he kept resisting thefalseStefan Smagula2006-11-20T00:23:00-06:002006-12-06T05:53:04Z2006-11-20T06:27:14Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10182402.post-116400403446609085Thanksgiving Video: A Lecture on the Nature of Consciousness
My mom is coming over for Thanksgiving. I started thinking of what to cook and what to clean, and began looking for recipes (browse by exposed faceted metadata there!) and then I came across this video from Google TechTalks on August 8, 2006. I realized that this video is the best thing I can do to prepare for Thanksgiving. You see, my mom is always talking to me about the neuroscience offalseStefan Smagula2006-10-08T01:50:34-05:002006-10-08T06:50:34Z2006-10-08T06:50:34Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10182402.post-116029023407662663Glenn Gould Plays Bach
Since I first heard Glenn Gould play Bach when I was about 11 or 12 years old, I've been fascinated and inspired by him and by his music. This is a 3-minute long film of Gould practicing. Watch for his left hand scolding his right hand at 1:37, and how he jumps up and goes to the window to practice the rhythm by clicking his tongue and palate and then sits back down at thefalseStefan Smagula2006-10-01T16:05:00-05:002006-10-03T03:01:00Z2006-10-01T21:12:33Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10182402.post-115973715308698104How to Install Drupal, PHP, and MySQL on Mac OS XAt the risk of jinxing everything, I think I have my first Drupal installation finally working. If you're considering content management systems (CMS's), or blogging engines for a small to medium size organization, you should check out Drupal. It's quite promising. Here's the little site I created last night:
Nova Zembla.
Nova Zembla is just practice for a site that Tim Ziegler of the AustinfalseStefan Smagula2006-09-14T22:12:00-05:002006-09-15T03:59:45Z2006-09-15T03:18:09Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10182402.post-115829028942432945From Function to Emotion Design as a Spectrum from Function to Emotion Originally uploaded by smag. This is a snapshot of a whiteboard that shows how function and emotion exist at either end of the spectrum of design tasks. To create this chart I wrote a list of tasks on post-its such as: "define stance of application", "place widgets" or "specify typography" and then the group of us Information Architects andfalse