The inmates are running the asylum
Imagine, at a terrifyingly aggressive rate, everything you regularly use is being equipped with computer technology. Think about your phone, cameras, cars-everything-being automated and programmed by people who in their rush to accept the many benefits of the silicon chip, have abdicated their respo...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Sams
2004
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| Edición: | 2nd edition |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009627239206719 |
| Sumario: | Imagine, at a terrifyingly aggressive rate, everything you regularly use is being equipped with computer technology. Think about your phone, cameras, cars-everything-being automated and programmed by people who in their rush to accept the many benefits of the silicon chip, have abdicated their responsibility to make these products easy to use. The Inmates Are Running the Asylum argues that the business executives who make the decisions to develop these products are not the ones in control of the technology used to create them. Insightful and entertaining, The Inmates Are Running the Asylum uses the author's experiences in corporate America to illustrate how talented people continuously design bad software-based products and why we need technology to work the way average people think. Somewhere out there is a happy medium that makes these types of products both user and bottom-line friendly; this book discusses why we need to quickly find that medium. |
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| Notas: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph Cover subtitle: Why high-tech products drive us crazy and how to restore the sanity. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxvi, 255 p.) ill Available also in a print edition |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781280840111 9786610840113 9780768663341 |
