Thursday, February 04, 2010

How being a south paw can make you different ?

A person who primarily uses his or her left hand, more so than the right hand is called South Paw.

An Added advantage for IT Professionals:

Universally common technological implement actually favoring left-handers is the QWERTY keyboard layout. Since this layout contains far more of the common English letters on the left side of the keyboard, the left hand does a solid majority of the typing, giving left-handed typists an advantage.


South Paws - Great Thinkers:
One theory divides left- and right-handed thinkers into two camps: visual simultaneous vs. linear sequential.
According to this theory, right-handed people are thought to process information using a "linear sequential" method in which one thread must complete its processing before the next thread can be started.
Left-handed persons are thought to process information using a "visual simultaneous" method in which several threads can be processed simultaneously.

Rich and Famous:

  • Many famous people throughout history were also left-handed: Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, Nikola Tesla, Picasso, and Jack the Ripper.

  • Seven Presidents of the United States were left handed (approx. 16%). They are: James Garfield, Herbert Hoover, Harry S. Truman, Gerald Ford; Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton.

Tuesday, December 01, 2009

Simple alone is a huge feature that's often vastly overlooked.

When you walk into a high-end restaurant, you really don't get a whole lot of choice. Usually, the hallmark of a high-end restaurant is the chef's menu. The chef prepared courses of a dinner in advance where he made all the choices. You eat there because you trust the chef's judgment and want his taste. And this way I think you'll end up with a much tastier meal in the end.

What DHH says:

Nobody would say, "I want to make complex software." But they do say things that amount to the same thing. "I want my software to have tons of features. I want my software to have endless flexibility." Well, all these things are in essence saying, "I want complex software." We're willing to take a stand for simplicity in software. We're willing to say, "You aren't going to get all the features you think you might need some day, you're just going to have the basics executed beautifully.

There's so much software out there that's just endlessly complex, that has too many features, that has too much flexibility, and it ends up not being used because users can't relate to it; they can't get into it. It feels too complex. It feels intimidating when what they really need is just a small subset of what they're given.


Source : From the DHH interview with UX magazine (We use common sense.)
I believe when you specify source, you are not plagiarizing the things !!!


Kind Regards,
CRV