Category Archives: Content with Context

The Power of Metrics to Guide Software Development

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Skip Walter

One of the big challenges with software product development is how to prioritize which features to add. Many books and academic papers are written on this topic each year. From my vantage point, the human centered design process is the … Continue reading →

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Duolingo – The Second Half of the Chessboard?

Posted on January 3, 2012 by Skip Walter

As a result of the mentoring I received from Russ Ackoff, I am fascinated more by really good questions than by the answers. My colleague, Professor David Socha, pointed me to a Ted Talk by Luis von Ahn on “Massive-scale online collaboration“. Luis is … Continue reading →

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Mentoring Idea Stage Startups

Posted on January 2, 2012 by Skip Walter

One of the joys of teaching project based classes in Human Centered Design is encouraging the teams to explore building their product and starting a company to monetize the product. This fall’s class project assignment was to research, design and … Continue reading →

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Creating Jobs – Racing with Smart Machines

Posted on January 1, 2012 by Skip Walter

In this silly season of presidential politics and having to listen to the nightly shenanigans of both parties about how important jobs are with the cynical me knowing that none of them have a clue how to improve the job … Continue reading →

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Ferry Capacity – Obesity Strikes

Posted on December 31, 2011 by Skip Walter

You have to love some of the things that the government spends time and money on. This week we learned that the Washington State Ferries passenger carrying capacity has to be lowered considerably due to the average weight gain of … Continue reading →

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Keeping up with the Infosphere

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Skip Walter

Along with the periodic reflection on nodes in my social networks, I like to reflect on what catches my interest in the infosphere and why. In the past about once a month I would document a “day in the life” of … Continue reading →

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Words Mean Something

Posted on December 28, 2011 by Skip Walter

Words Mean Something, Not Necessarily the Same to Everyone I am always amazed at how words mean something, but rarely the same thing to different people. One of the hardest words to get agreement on is the word “customer.” It’s … Continue reading →

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The Economy of the Firm – Russ Ackoff

Posted on December 28, 2011 by Skip Walter

Russ Ackoff had an incredible eye for looking at things we all take for granted and see the systems implications behind them. As we gear up for another election year, and hear both parties share their vision for what democracy … Continue reading →

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