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Great insights on functionnal design froma any possible sources... Mostly english, but some french inside Patrice Mar 8

The Uphill Battle Of Social Event Sharing: A Post-Mortem for Plancast | TechCrunch http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/22/post-mortem-for-plancast/ Over the subsequent year and a half, we struggled to refine the product’s purpose and bolster its central value proposition with better functionality and design, but we were ultimately unable to make it work (with user registration growth and engagement being our two main high-level metrics).

Jobs apparently knew himself the pitfalls of the design, he didn't want to advertise the iPad as a computer, and thats clearly because it falls so short of even a netbook. Jobs 'annoyed and depressed' following iPad announcement, biography reveals | ZDNet http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/jobs-annoyed-and-depressed-following-ipad-announcement-biography-reveals/15756

Even test-driven development — the notion that a development team’s automated tests are even more important than the actual software they write, and should be written first — is being criticized. http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/08/you-must-admit/ You’ve Got To Admit It’s Getting Better | TechCrunch

To label each story in the interface with the person it came from, Instapaper just uses the label from however you found them. http://www.marco.org/2011/09/14/instapapers-antisocial-network Instapaper’s (anti-)social network – Marco.org

Can We Ever Digitally Organize Our Friends? « Design « kev/null http://kevnull.com/2011/07/can-we-ever-digitally-organize-our-friends.html In Design , Technology on 15 July 2011. When Google+ launched last week, one of the most discussed features was Circles.

Don't even test a social product without email notifications. What Google+ Learned from Buzz and Wave | Smarterware http://smarterware.org/8248/what-google-learned-from-buzz-and-wave

7 Myths of Entrepreneurship and Programming http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2011/06/07/whats-your-start-up-bus-count-7-myths-of-entrepreneurship-and-programming/ Conventional wisdom for many years was that software engineering should be like other types of engineering: design carefully, specify precisely, and then just build it – exactly to spec. Just like building a bridge, right?

Mobile UI Patterns http://mobile-patterns.com/ These are the newest screenshots added to the various collections.

The Economics of Attention: Why There Are No Second Chances on the Internet : Tech News and Analysis « Lack the happiness/utility balance I would argue that the Joost and Cuil failures came at a time when social media amplification was not as effective as it is today. http://gigaom.com/2011/03/29/the-economics-of-attention-why-there-are-no-second-chances-on-the-internet/

http://fr.readwriteweb.com/2011/03/02/analyse/quora-ou-les-bonnes-pratiques-dutilisation-du-facebook-graph-api/ Après avoir étudié en profondeur le processus d’inscription de Quora, j’en suis arrivé à me poser la question suivante : est-ce que Quora va réussir là ou Twitter a échoué ? Quora ou les bonnes pratiques d’utilisation du Facebook graph API | ReadWriteWeb French edition

How Facebook Ships Code « FrameThink https://framethink.wordpress.com/2011/01/17/how-facebook-ships-code/ very engineering driven culture. ”product managers are essentially useless here.” is a quote from an engineer. engineers can modify specs mid-process, re-order work projects, and inject new feature ideas anytime. [EDITORIAL] The author of this blog post is a product manager, so this sentiment really caught my attention. As you’ll see in the rest of these notes, though, it’s apparent that Facebook’s culture has really embraced product management practices so it’s not as though the role of product management is somehow ignored or omitted.

So, the intelligent fellow you are, you decide to try and find a question that you can provide a good answer to so you can get real rep points so that you can contribute all over the place. So you dig through tags and search, but you quickly realize that every question that’s not some vague, poorly worded, open ended impossibility has already got 10 answers (ranging from wrong/poor to highly thoughtful, correct). So you start trolling the “New” list hoping to catch a question that you can answer quickly and hopefully get some rep/upvotes so you can actually participate in a useful fashion. Why StackOverflow sucks and participating there is impossible « Words and Stuff http://goofygrin.wordpress.com/2011/02/01/why-stackoverflow-sucks-and-participating-there-is-impossible/

http://www.quora.com/Why-does-Twitter-enjoy-such-success-in-comparison-to-FriendFeed-Plurk-Buzz-or-any-of-the-others Why does Twitter enjoy such success in comparison to FriendFeed, Plurk, Buzz or any of the others? - Quora Our automated scripts have detected a possible scraper from this IP address. If you feel we have made an error, please email info@quora.com.

http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2010/the-end-of-the-killer-feature/ It didn’t matter than the Macintosh had a better experience, the availability of apps drove the decisions for many people. With the iPhone, perhaps for the first time I can remember, a product has both superior design and a superior 3rd party platform. The end of the killer feature « Scott Berkun

Facebook redesigns Friend Request emails to be a bit friendlier http://thenextweb.com/facebook/2011/03/23/facebook-redesigns-friend-request-emails-to-be-a-bit-friendlier/ All Facebook reported the new design first, and sure enough, fellow TNW-er Brodie just sent me a friend request and there was the new look.

Smart Gamification GDC2011

Think Vitamin » Emotional Interface Design: The Gateway to Passionate Users

Need Game Mechanics?

We Don't Need No Stinking Badges

CityVille Explained

The Power of Quora & Why Benchmark was Right to Pay Up | Both Sides of the Table

Google noobs

BookBlog ? Blog Archive ? Facebook groups ? design flaws in social scaling - Adina Levin's weblog. For conversation about books I've been reading, social software, and other stuff too.

Gmail’s Permanent Failure: Only Humans Can Build Software For Humans

Google Orkut solves Facebook's biggest problem - The Raw Feed

Social Interaction Design by Adrian Chan: What's there to like?

What Drives Consumer Adoption Of New Technologies?

Excellent post indeed - By the way, welcome to Pearltrees by Patrice Jun 15

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In fact, the controversy goes far beyond this story. This analysis and many others like this one are typical from the current emphasis on bounded rationnality in social siences. In economy, It goes into what is call "neo-institutionnalism", with Douglas North, the 1993 nobel price-winner, as a remarquable figure. His work and many other show that economic evolutions are closely embedded in social constraints. For exemple they create "path dependent" situation such as the Qwerty story (and to be fair almost all technology story). Neo-classical economists and free-market proponents just can't stend this, since it breaks down most of their models - look at the source of your links - . However, despite all the possible detailed arguments against this specific story -you always find counter-arguments in a case- it does not take much more than good sense to see that technologie, especially in his functionnal design area his highly path dependent. You may think about right and left clicks, 140 car twitter limit, or almost anything the Web use everyday, and imagine whether thinks could have been different... by Patrice Sep 24

And an interesting post that puts things in perspective http://www.reason.com/news/show/29944.html by davidb Sep 24

Maybe not really accurate though: http://phasetwo.org/post/the-querty-myth.html by davidb Sep 24

Ne peut pas être Apple ou Google qui veut | SimpleWeb.fr - Mozil

Scobleizer: Technology, innovation, and geek enthusiasm » Blog A

No! Never Surrender To Your Users, Facebook. - Mozilla Firefox

Tim O\'Reilly - Privacy | Andrea Vascellari - Mozilla Firefox

A point for a private part in Pearltrees by Patrice Mar 1

Simple = compliqué?

Sympa, cette perle, le point 2 me rappelle quelque chose que j'entend beaucoup en ce moment... by Patrice May 29

Tests utilisateurs

Présenté ici en version bien peu collaborative by Patrice Mar 1

Dans le cas de Pearltrees, les tests utilisateurs n'interviennent pas au niveau du produit, mais au niveau de chaque fonctionnalité: Ils sont intégérs à la conception et à l'exécution de l'ensemble du site by Patrice Mar 1

Facebook: still a data roach motel when compared to Twitter and

Good design: Dieter Rams' ten commandments

Design by committee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

11 Common Web Design Mistakes (Blunders) | Web 2.0

Features that slow a website down...

... aren't feature at all

Software Architecture Visualizations : un album sur Flickr

Disqus Forks Into Two Products, Launches Revamped Real-Time Comm

The art of "conceptual reconstruction". Nice functionnal move indeed! by Patrice Aug 28

FriendFeed ou l'art du mailing...

Article intéressant, mais je ne suis pas très sur que cela "marche" tant que cela.... et la croissance de ff semble bel et bien se tasser par rapport au buzz qu'il a généré by Patrice Jul 23

Asshole driven development « Scott Berkun

It's not a promise, it's a guess - (37signals)

yes, but the ability to commit is important as well - we need the two type of information! by Patrice Feb 3

'Drastic' Digg overhaul could 'shock' users, says Kevin Rose - T

Frequently Forgotten Fundamental Facts about Software Engineerin

When Bad Things Happen to Good Products | Technologizer

Daring Fireball: Apple, Adobe, and Flash

Social Patterns

In search of the perfect viral social app - Laurent Kretz on Posterous

Fred Wilson’s 10 Golden Principles of Successful Web Apps | Cars

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A couple of nice stuffs I add from time to time on the functionnal design topic... but no attempt whatsoever to be exaustive! by Patrice Sep 23