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"In the early days of the photocopier, the machines would often fail. Problems as simple as a paper jam (identified by a cryptic “Error E31” on the display) would require calling a trained service professional to come on site to open and repair the machine. A team from design consultancy Fitch-Richardson Smith, led by John Rheinfrank, helped Xerox shift its cultural paradigm away from training service professionals to embedding information in the machines so that the machine users could fix problems themselves, quickly and effectively. In essence, the redesign provided information that helped people learn to use the machine as they used it, by offering a rich set of resources for managing the process (in this particular case, in the event of an equipment malfunction)."



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"Many early interaction design efforts focused on making things simple for naïve users. The idea was to take resources for decision-making away from people—automating features in cameras, for example—to reduce cognitive load or how much users would have to think about what they were doing. Reducing cognitive load often comes at a price: limiting choice and possibilities for expression. For example, point-and-shoot cameras with one wide-angle lens, fixed focal length, single f-stop, and single shutter speed. This approach should raise ethical concerns for designers, especially when it “de-skills” people."



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"The history of design is mostly the history of designing static worlds—objects, messages, and spaces that are fixed and invariant.

In a static world we are forced to adapt to the object. For instance, this chair is this height. It doesn’t matter if you’re short or tall—the height of the chair remains the same. Most chairs are still like this today. They are static objects. Your back and your butt must adjust to the chair. It is an object that we adapt to.

Along comes a new kind of chair. Not only can you turn in it, but you can also raise and lower it—or even tilt it to a position that is right for you. The designer’s role expanded from that of arbitrator of form to creator of resources for interacting with the chair. This meant the designer had a whole new range of representations to account for and choices to make. Because now that we can adjust the chair, we are more comfortable as we work."



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"In the years since John’s death, complex systems have become deeply engrained in our everyday lives, from Facebook and Twitter to the interconnected financial systems that plunged us into the credit crisis. When John learned he was sick, he began working on a book on the relationship between design and systems. Sadly, he never finished, but some of his core ideas were preserved in a presentation on moving from static to adaptive worlds. John saw adaptive worlds as a new way to frame interaction design, which makes it an important topic for interactions. This presentation was his way of helping us make the leap from the present to the future he could already envision. Working from John’s presentation slides and a tape of his talk, we have summarized his ideas.

—Hugh Dubberly"




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"Worlds
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Written for Interactions magazine by Shelley Evenson, Justin Rheinfrank and Hugh Dubberly.

Editor’s Note:
After a long career in systems engineering and design, John Rheinfrank died on July 4, 2004.

John’s Ph.D. dissertation explored what he called “organic systems theory,” or what’s now called “complex adaptive systems”—bridging multiple disciplines and theoretical frames (e.g., biology, computing, economics, psychology, and sociology). John spent most of his professional life applying principles derived from living systems to designing systems for people—from design languages that could serve as the foundation for a broad range of reprographic machines for Xerox, to personal information and communication appliances for Philips. In essence, he wanted us to design systems that are alive."


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"Why does this matter? What are the practical consequences?

Value is created by developing new products and services. But we don’t really know how to design products, services, or organizations. That great products occasionally emerge is something like magic. (Design thinking remains a special form of this magic.)

Product management is not yet a discipline. It isn’t taught in design schools or in business schools. We have no theory of product management. We don’t even have a theory of products.

Those are giant holes.

What’s more, design is no longer concerned only with things. Increasingly, design is concerned with systems—and now systems of systems or ecologies.

In a sense, these systems are alive. They grow and co-evolve.

Designers and product managers cannot always control them. Instead, they must create conditions in which they can emerge and flourish.

All this requires new thinking and new knowledge. It requires design practice to learn.

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"What’s the solution?

Visually-oriented design programs should be left to do what they do well. Design should move out of art schools and into its own professional schools, alongside schools of business, law, and medicine.

Drawing and form-giving are not the essence of design. Seeing patterns, making connections, and understanding relationships are.

Modeling, mapping, and visualizing information should replace figure drawing. Systems theory and process management should replace 2D and 3D foundation courses. Social sciences and communications theory must be part of design curricula (e.g., ethnography, cognitive psychology, economics, rhetoric, semiotics).

Instruction should shift from an emphasis on making to a balance of making, observing, and reflecting.

The case-study teaching method works well in law, business, and medicine. We need to write and teach design cases. We need to integrate design cases and other research into studios."



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"Why isn’t design research making a difference?

Design doesn’t have feedback loops that include funding, research, publishing, tenure, and teaching, These feedback loops ensure quality. Without them, design will remain stuck.

In contrast, engineering, medicine, and biology have strong feedback loops. Government and industry fund research, which leads to military, health care, and commercial applications. Peer reviewers look for breakthrough papers and filter out those that tread old ground. Tenure can be awarded on merit. And graduate students and professors are able to attract VC funding, start companies, and apply their ideas (e.g., Sun, Netscape, Yahoo, Google).

Setting up strong feedback loops for building design knowledge will be difficult. Existing institutions are unlikely to change. We need new ones."



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"But aren’t things changing?

Slowly. Publishing has become a requirement for tenure in design programs at major universities, but studio work remains the overwhelming factor in tenure decisions.

Publishing matters less in second-tier universities and independent art schools. And it is almost a black mark in for-profit design schools, where practical experience remains the main criterion for hiring.

Making things worse, art school tenure committees include non-design faculty, with little appreciation of design research.

The focus on design research at a few top schools is a positive development, (e.g., IIT/ID, CMU, NCSU, Royal College, Delft). Journals such as Design Issues, Visible Language, and Interactions publish interesting articles. But design journals are not widely read. And design research rarely affects practice or teaching.

(A few design blogs are widely read, but they aren’t building lasting knowledge.)"


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"Why not? What’s holding design back?

The short answer is art schools. Most design programs are housed in art schools. And art school teaching still follows a medieval model: Master and apprentice.

Studio courses are mostly about socialization— sharing and creating tacit knowledge through direct experience. Students learn by watching one another. Teachers rarely espouse principles. Learning proceeds from specific to specific. Knowledge remains tacit.

Practice is much the same as education. Over the course of a career, most designers learn to design better. But what they learn is highly idiosyncratic, dependent on their unique context. The knowledge designers gain usually retires with them.

Rarely do designers distill rules from experience, codify new methods, test and improve them, and pass them on to others. Rarely do designers move from tacit to explicit."



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"During the same twenty years, the big changes in design were not about design; they were about technology—computers and the internet— changes forced on Glaser’s world by Negroponte’s world.

What this examples shows is that the world of computers evolves. Like the worlds of biology and physics, it has learned how to learn. It bootstraps existing knowledge to create knew knowledge.

That’s what academic disciplines do, but it rarely happens in design."




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"Can you give an example?

In 1985, in Boston, the AIGA held its first national conference; speakers included Nicholas Negroponte (a famous technologist) and Milton Glaser (a famous designer). Twenty years later, the AIGA conference returned to Boston and again included Negroponte and Glaser.

In his 2005 speech, Negroponte talked about the One Laptop Per Child project. Glaser showed some beautiful posters and talked movingly about human rights.

What struck me was how much things had changed in Negroponte’s world and how little things had changed in Glaser’s world.

During the intervening twenty years, computing power, storage capacity, and network speeds doubled more than ten times, while costs remained roughly the same. Personal computers grew from toys to necessities. Mobile phones, the internet, and social networks arrived."



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"Imagine Design Create
by Hugh Dubberly
Interview with Hugh Dubberly

A design innovator argues that design learning is a prerequisite for design thinking.

You have said that design is stuck. What do you mean?

Design practice does not learn. As a profession, we don’t even know how to learn.


We’re stuck. Trapped in the past. Unable to move forward. Unclear on what forward might mean. Lacking mechanisms to build and share knowledge. Lacking even a model of design knowledge.

In fact, the problem is so structurally embedded, so pervasive, so deep, that we don’t see it."



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"Checking out Software Directly from HP

The simplest thing to do when you want to get your printer installed without any issues is by contacting HP themselves. First, you will need to get a hold of a customer service representative and tell them the exact model that you own. After doing so, they can look up the software they offer and see if they have the right one. If they can find it, they will be able to send it your way in the original packaging. This is the easiest way to get the software you need, but it isn’t an option for everybody due to printers getting quickly outdated."





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"Finding Options That Are Available

It is easy to get frustrated and think you cannot properly install your printer without the use of the included CD. Luckily, there are a couple of options that are available to you if you want the printer to be running and do not have the CD. You can either contact HP directly and download or receive a new CD in the mail. This method may or may not work depending on if you have a recent printer model and if they still offer the software. You can also resort to checking out forums or even attempt to perform the installation without the software."



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"HP Printer Software for Windows 7 – Keeping Your Printer Running
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Realtek HD Audio Driver Updated to R2.53
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"Patch Tuesday October 2010: 16 Updates Correcting 49 Security Related Issues
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"Latest NVIDIA Driver Packages Comes Out of Beta: v260.89 Now Available
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"Adobe Issues Security Updates for InDesign and RoboHelp
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"Mozilla Corrects 9 Security Issues in Firefox 3.6.11 Update Out Today
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"NVIDIA Releases v260.99 WHQL GeForce/ION Driver: Adds SLI & 3D Vision Profiles, Increases Performance in Some Games
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"ATI Adds Several New Features & Over a Dozen Fixes With Catalyst v10.10 Driver Suite
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"Microsoft Releases Several Non-Security Related Updates
Microsoft released several non-security related updates to various Windows operating systems this week:

XPS Format Improved

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"Mozilla Releases Firefox 3.6.12 Update Correcting a Single Critical Security Issue
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"Microsoft Streets and Trips Updates Construction Data
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"Realtek HD Audio Drivers R2.54 Released
Realtek has released version R2.54 of their High Definition Audio drivers.

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Microsoft Junk Mail Filters Updated
Microsoft today released definition updates for their various email programs, improving the ability of the programs to correctly identify spam and malicious emails:

Junk Email Filter Update for Windows Mail [32-bit | 64-bit]
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"Patch Tuesday November 2010: 3 Updates Correcting 11 Security Related Issues
This month's Patch Tuesday includes 3 individual updates correcting a total of 11 security issues across several versions of Microsoft Office and other Microsoft software used in their Server line of operating systems.

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"November 2010 Update for Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool Now Available
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"Adobe Releases Acrobat/Reader 9.4.1 Correcting 1 Serious Security Issue
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"AMD/ATI Releases Catalyst 10.11 Video Driver Update; Corrects Several Issues, Mostly in Windows 7
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"Microsoft Issues 1.14 Update to Internet Explorer 8 Compatibility View List
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"Realtek Releases R2.55 HD Audio Drivers
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"Adobe Releases Security Update for Illustrator CS5
Adobe released an update for their Illustrator application on Friday that corrects a single security vulnerability.

From Adobe:

Exploitation of this vulnerability (CVE-2010-3152) could allow an attacker to load arbitrary libraries by tricking a user into opening a file located on a remote WebDAV or SMB share.

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"Microsoft Updates Construction Data in Streets and Trips / MapPoint Applications
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"Mozilla Corrects 11 Security Issues in Firefox 3.6.13 Update
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"Patch Tuesday December 2010: 17 Updates Correcting 42 Security Related Issues
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"December 2010 Update for Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool Available
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"AMD Releases ATI Radeon Video Driver Update 10.12; Adds New Features and Fixes Several Issues with Windows 7
AMD has released version 10.12 of their ATI Radeon Video Card Drivers, adding several new features and correcting a huge number of issues, mostly in Windows 7.

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"Things Are Not Always What They Seem


Looks legitimate, right?

'System Security Pack Upgrade' sounds official. 'Automatic Updates' listed in the title is certainly a good thing. There's a nice long version number, and there's even a Microsoft Knowledge Base article you can reference if you'd like.

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"Free File Recovery Software
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"NVIDIA Releases v266.35 BETA GeForce/ION driver package; New GPU Support and Performance Improvements Among Many Changes
NVIDIA has released version 266.35 BETA of their GeForce/ION driver package, adding support for the GTX 580 and GTX 570 GPUs, increasing performance in several games, and adding ambient occlusion support for Startcraft II: Windows of Liberty. Several 3D Vision updates are included as well.

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"Realtek HD Audio Drivers R2.56 Released
Realtek has released version R2.56 of their High Definition (HD) Audio drivers.

You can download this latest Realtek HD driver for Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, and more here. Both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of this driver are available.

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"January 2011 Streets and Trips / MapPoint Construction Data Update Available
Microsoft has released the January 2011 construction data updates to their various Streets and Trips programs. These updates usually occur every month.

These patches allow your Streets and Trips program to show the latest available road construction information.

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