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COFES Blog
By Rachael Dalton-Taggart on
4/26/2006 3:14 AM
There is a growth of concern about the continued usability - or lack thereof - of CAD software. Steve Wolfe hosted a briefing session about it and I am impatient to get the audio recording of it for reference. Martyn Day was intended to host a briefing about this at the event too, but unfortunately missed his plane and turned up late.
One of Alan Cooper's main complaints (our keynoter BTW) in his book 'The Inmates are Running the Asylum" is that interfaces on almost any product, anywhere, are not given the attention they need to make a product usable. This doesn't only refer to CAD products, but also to simple things like VCRs, microwaves etc. CAD products are incredibly powerful tools. But for some reason, we have to spend months learning to use one. Why is that? Why isn't it obvious what button to press to make a shape? Why doesn't this powerful tool show me what I am doing, and make it easy?
While I had a quick whinge about this during COFES, Shyamal Roy from Geomate asked me a very...
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By Joel Orr on
4/17/2006
Irving Wladawsky-Berger, IBM VP, in "Always On" - http://www.alwayson-network.com/weblog.php
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By Joel Orr on
4/15/2006
COFES is a highlight of my year! Ever since we created COFES, back in the last century, this glorious get-together has been a major source of inspiration, networking, and empowerment in my life.
It has a been a major factor in encouraging several of my grandchildren to become engineers, for one thing.
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