design in comment and analysis
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Quality by design
Comment Good design is one of those abstract things that are hard to define. Some companies work on the premise that everything they sell will be good by design. Customers correctly perceived the goods were cheap and shoddy and of fundamentally poor design. [09 Jul 2008]
From CIO to consultant: Project manager or salesman?
Comment The design element of the project was carried out by a separate agency with me responsible for the build process. Originally the project was scheduled to run for six months, roughly half design and half build. [02 Jul 2008]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: A game of two halves
Comment During its design and development stage, the developers will have allowed for the function to be able to cope with a certain workload, and possibly for the function to expand this workload to an extent if more virtual resources, such as CPU or... [30 Jun 2008]
How many people will it take to fill Gates' shoes?
Comment Mike Toutonghi Toutonghi currently leads the Advertising Platform Architecture Team, "focusing on architectural design and integration of Microsoft's platform assets, technologies and efforts". It's not that Bill Gates has an inflated sense of his... [24 Jun 2008]
Graham Young
CIO Profile Graham Young joined architect Foster + Partners in June 2007 and has 40 years experience in the field of design engineering, working in a variety of roles across various industry sectors. Young started out on civil and structural design engineering... [11 Jun 2008]
Who voted on the CIO50?
Comment Since 2005, he has been an independent board consultant, advising on design and implementation of IT, operations and procurement. The silicon.com CIO50 2008 list was compiled using the votes of 25 CIOs and an expert judging panel. [11 Jun 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 23.05.08
Round-Up The good news for the project is that the laptop has a new design and it looks quite snazzy. Either way, the project took the wraps off its new laptop design this week and you can judge the design merits for yourself by checking it out here. [23 May 2008]
The Naked CIO: Madness in the method
Comment It is difficult to manage the time-line strictly and costs can run away from you because of the lack of cohesive specification design from the outset. Waterfall, agile, extreme? Development models are meant to lead to better software for the business. [19 May 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Energy shortages loom
Comment Those estimates were translated into energy densities in the design of air conditioning and the square metre space allocation per head for occupancy limits. Written during an intensely boring conference session and dispatched via a free wi-fi node... [16 May 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 18.04.08
Round-Up So, "annoying users" part of the user experience design cycle at Redmond. This week - a chance to help write your own gags for the Round-Up. What sort of company admits to introducing features in its product designed to deliberately "annoy users"? [18 Apr 2008]
Minority Report: Why I am a Mac user
Comment The concept of taking delight in technology or the advocacy of the principles of sexy computing are central to the tenets of emotional design in technology and are scoffed at by some. The general idea behind emotional design - proposed by cognitive... [17 Apr 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Instant delays
Comment We can only hope we shall see a return to sanity with the advent of new and leaner operating systems, and efficient code writers guided by sound design principles founded on well understood and documented human factors. [16 Apr 2008]
Are rogue traders an inevitable evil?
Comment It follows that effective and efficient exception monitoring then becomes a critical necessity but, all too often, is an after-thought in systems design. Experts say investment banking fraud can never be eradicated - even with the most... [15 Apr 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Eating your own dog food
Comment These folks never seem to travel, live, sleep, do business, or serve customers with the stuff they design. It seems to be increasingly the case that great opportunities involving breathtaking technology get fouled up at the design stage. [14 Apr 2008]
Centralised or decentralised IT?
Comment By centralising the supply organisation, the IT demand-supply model maintains the efficiencies necessary in applications development and the ability to design systems that share information across functional and business unit boundaries. [09 Apr 2008]
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