Designing the Obvious

Robert Hoekman, Jr

Robert Hoekman, Jr is speaking now on Designing the Obvious, his book and philosophy:

These principles include building only what’s necessary, getting users up to speed quickly, preventing and handling errors, and designing for the activity.

I just added the book to my must read list, but what I’m hearing here sounds like instructions to a sculptor: chip away all that is not David.

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  1. Comment by Robert Hoekman, Jr. on July 21, 2007 9:46 pm

    Casey -

    I’m very glad you enjoyed the presentation. I must say, I was really surprised to see my photo up on your site. My wife is very much a “Library 2.0″ librarian and she reads your blog all the time, so I instantly recognized your handle on Flickr and I linked over from there. We’re both quite happy to know that librarians are attending events like WordCamp.

    If you happen to be at the WordCamp event this evening, please introduce yourself. I’d love to meet you.

    Thank you.

  2. Pingback by » Is It That They Don't Care? Or Just Don't Want It From Us? on July 31, 2007 12:44 pm

    [...] Let’s start small and make our library websites and catalogs as welcoming and easy to use as we want our physical services to be. [...]

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