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Platform for change Companies like Apple and Facebook have learned to harness the energy of outside developers to create new applications. By allowing thousands of new applications to run on their platforms, they create a Darwinian environment where only the fittest survive. Jeff, a developer, noticed that Facebook lacked reminders around birthdays, so he created Birthday Alert. Customers quickly made it one of the hottest apps on the platform. Instead of trying to guess what type of functionality users wanted, Facebook just tapped into smart developers like Jeff who built it for them.
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IDEO's Human Centered Design Toolkit - A MUST READ and a great
I offered to give a presentation to some high school pre-engineering and computer students at one of my schools, a magnet school for technology and the arts. In preparing for this presentation, I downloaded IDEO 's Human Centered Design Kit. What a great resource! There is a facilitator version of the tool kit which will be helpful as I put my presentation together. The 105-page document is clearly written and contains a variety of pictures, charts, and diagrams that facilitate the understanding of concepts.mur interactif