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Reference for the quotes: Let’s stop drugging kids
“This year, the Food and Drug Administration has mandated a black-box label on antidepressants warning of the potential for increased suicidal thoughts and behavior with children and adolescents.”
Aren’t antidepressants supposed to improve your mood? Does this mean that these medications are making people happy but violent? Can someone […]

“Siemens researchers have developed a cell phone featuring a built-in projector system. A laboratory model was presented at CeBIT 2005 in Hanover. The system makes it possible to project a complete keypad or display onto a surface. With a special pen, users can write on the virtual keypad and operate the phone’s functions.”
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“Seems that most of the guidelines are focused on folks with disabilities. To be brutally honest, free-market companies care very little about the disabled as they represent only a very small portion of the market. On the other hand, there does not seem to be focus on usability for mainstream consumers.”
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CNN — “A mass market exists for the mobile Internet, but it will remain untapped until designers make simpler Web pages that can be viewed properly on handsets, the inventor of the World Wide Web said.”
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In my world the week starts on Monday.
Monday — Monday is a fine day. I’m fresh from the weekend. Even bad weekends make me fresh for Monday. When I start work on Monday, I often have plenty of fluff to plow through. That is, I can ease into the week by burning through emails, […]

Paul Graham — “I think most businesses that fail do it because they don’t give customers what they want. Look at restaurants. A large percentage fail, about a quarter in the first year. But can you think of one restaurant that had really good food and went out of business?”
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Usability…

“Somewhere along the way, the myth developed that justified type conveys more of a hard news feel — and that and rag right is more featurey. Readers don’t make any differentiation between the two. Some reasearch has shown that rag right is easier to read because justified text can create large spaces and more hyphenation. […]

“Beginning in 2006, Microsoft says it will ship with its operating system and other software products six brand new typefaces created especially for extended on-screen reading.”
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From Thoman Baekdal: XMLHttpRequest Usability GuidelinesAuthor and Usable XMLHttpRequest in PracticeAuthor

IA versus UX. Or, as I like to say, structure first, usability second. There is no “experience” without having something to first experience. There is no house without plans, building materials, and some construction.