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There is much that is technical about search; how you measure relevance and improve it, how you do the indexing, how you process the queries, how you remove duplicates from the found, how you deal with spelling errors, how you put together the found and present it. This post isn’t about any of these things. … Continue reading “More four pillars: looking harder at search”
Myrto Lazopoulou, who heads up the User Centred Design team where I work, pointed me at a recent post by Donald Norman reviewing Google’s usability. Who in turn led me to Mel Conway’s 1968 paper, which you can find here. I found it fascinating. In Conway’s own words, his thesis can be summarised as follows: … Continue reading “Blogs and organisational structures and Conway�s Law”
Economic models that succeed tend to take advantage of the abundances as well as the shortages that characterise a particular economic era. Traditionally, the primary factors of production used to be land, labour and capital; much of this was in “institutional†rather than individual hands, and as a result, attempts to create efficiencies in the … Continue reading “Opening shots”