Bill Buxton: Designing User Experience
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Bill Buxton is a researcher in
MSR. I got the chance to sit down with him recently to learn about user experience from the design guru himself.
His bio:
"Bill Buxton is a designer and a researcher concerned with human aspects of technology. His work reflects a particular interest in the use of technology to support creative activities such as design, film making and music. Buxton's research specialties include technologies, techniques and theories of input to computers, technology mediated human-human collaboration, and ubiquitous computing. "
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His bio:
"Bill Buxton is a designer and a researcher concerned with human aspects of technology. His work reflects a particular interest in the use of technology to support creative activities such as design, film making and music. Buxton's research specialties include technologies, techniques and theories of input to computers, technology mediated human-human collaboration, and ubiquitous computing. "
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Fascinating interview.
Charles asks the "perfect question"!
He is very right about making as many mistakes or failures as possible as quick as possible and learning from them.
Quote of the day:
"Paranoia is a wonderful thing."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoia
Bill reminds me of the writings of Peter Drucker.
OMG-- Bill is hanging out with the Expression Team.
http://www.billbuxton.com/
Three Cheers.
More interviews like this please.
Followup interview with Alan Cooper would be perfect.
Congratulations Charles, one of your very best interviews.
PS
I believe the quote that Bill mentions was on President Ronald Reagan's desk was spoken by President Harry S. Truman:
"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Harry_S._Truman
Reagan started out as a Democrat but switched in 1962 saying ""I didn't leave the Democratic Party. The party left me."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan
Great talk guys. Thanks. Also love the new SL vid control - just feels better.
You raise some good points, why hide them?
I get what you're saying. I've felt like that about MS too and I'm guessing it has something to do with the company just being too big and over-thinking stuff instead of just doing it. They're also hindered by having to deal with so much legal junk ever time they even think about making a new product so the creative people get disappointed when they can't create the products they want and the final product ends up being a watered down version of their original vision. It's like creating art by committee, it works but it's never as good as what they originally envisioned. It also doesn't help that Microsoft is not very good at marketing.
ALSO, on a related note:
I wish they'd stop trying to conquer every market and just concentrate on doing a few things really well because they definitely have the resources and the talented employees to do that but maybe they're putting too much effort and "thought" into too many different areas. Bill talked about taking out stuff from software and avoiding feature creep so maybe they should stop expanding to avoid doing the same with the company.
The many different versions of Vista is a good example of Miscrosoft's people (I don't know which division that would be) over-thinking instead of just releasing one OS for regular PCs and one OS for servers. (not taking in to account he embeded and mobile stuff which is quite different)
By the way... If avoiding feature creep was what lead to the overly dumbed down Vista photo import wizard, then I'm all for feature creep
At least Live Photo Gallery fixes that problem.
Smart man!
Bill Buxton looks like Patrick Bauchau - the actor http://imdb.com/name/nm0000872/
Just that he does it for real
fyi: missing tag, "Bill Buxton" on video
Thanks. Fixed!
C
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