links for 2007-02-16

“I fear that Jakob is turn­ing into a per­ni­cious force when it comes to advanc­ing the field of design, because his reach means tens of thou­sands of peo­ple are read­ing this unsub­stan­ti­at­ed crap. Such out­ra­geous claims tru­ly feel like the wild flail­ings of i

Mark Hurst nails it when he says: “Guess what’s a bet­ter expe­ri­ence for game play­ers: talk­ing about proces­sor tech­nol­o­gy, or hav­ing fun?” I love my DS, and I can’t wait to get a Wii.

“Nin­ten­do got reli­gion ear­ly on the impor­tance of expand­ing the audi­ence of con­sole gamers, where the vast major­i­ty of the indus­try’s sales still occur.”

“One of the things expe­ri­enced design­ers are pret­ty good at is deter­min­ing on any giv­en project what the puz­zles are and what the mys­ter­ies are.”

I real­ly need to clean out my sub­scrip­tions using this method. It’s high time.

Gah! Het woord ‘inno­vatie blijkt niet één keer voor te komen in het nieuwe regeer­akko­ord… Tijd om te emigreren?

What con­tracts actu­al­ly suit agile projects? JP Ran­gaswa­mi investigates…

Excel­lent read; Eric Steven Ray­mond dis­sects open source hack­er cul­ture and lays its inner work­ings bear. Think­ing about how this could apply to design makes my head spin.

Een aardig stuk­je over inno­vatie in het bedri­jf­sleven gebruik­mak­end van open source filosofieën. Dit wiki-denken noe­men vind ik een beet­je een stretch.

Lat­est entry in a series of posts by War­ren Hutchin­son on design­ing search sys­tems. It describes a use­ful frame­work to keep in mind.

This post con­tains links to notes and a PDF of Boy­d’s pre­sen­ta­tion at LIFT on design­ing social soft­ware. Huge amounts of stuff I can read­i­ly apply to my cur­rent design project. Hooray!

Ah this rocks, now I want the Wii even more; it seems the brows­er on it is so good it actu­al­ly allows you to work with the wiki soft­ware we use at work.

Clay Shirky effort­less­ly deflates the hype around Sec­ond Life and crit­i­cizes mass media for not check­ing their facts. Should have read and post­ed this ear­li­er but oh well.