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MacBook Wheel - When good designs go bad

Thu, 01/08/2009 - 1:00am

The Onion New Network did a brilliant parody: The MacBook Wheel. It takes the simple iPod interface and places it into a complex device, i.e. a laptop. The results are hardly satisfactory. But it's a great way of demonstrating how a good inteface in one domain becomes poor in another. Check out the video

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Going Paperless

Tue, 04/01/2008 - 9:45am

For many years I've liked paperless solutions because of its convenience. Yet I often print article because they are easier to read and transport, which made me reflect on Espen Andersen recent article Time to Get Serious about the Paperless Office and what it would take to make me go completely paperless.

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