Michael Nygard contemplates Why Do Enterprise Applications Suck?
I mean, have you ever seen someone write 1,500 words about how much they love their corporate expense reporting system? Or spend their free time mashing up the job posting system together with Google maps? Of course not. But why not?
Read more to find out what he thinks.
“The funny thing about metrics – the wrong one distracts more than it helps.” - Garrick Van Buren
It is certain that every organization has too many meetings, and far too many poorly designed ones. The main reason we don’t make meetings more productive is that we don’t value our time properly. The people who call meetings and those who attend them are not thinking about time as their most valuable resource. - Reid Hastie [via SvN]
I don’t tend to be much of a game person, but if you’re tired of what passes for normal computer games these days, World of Goo is quite enjoyable and one definitely worth checking out.
From the review:
World of Goo is a game I want to take to every non-gamer, to every jaded cynic who says games aren’t art, and to every person who’ll have 8 first-person-shooters on their 9 game shopping list this winter. [...] You simply must try it.
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