November 2010
12 posts
Dammit, Jim, I'm a Doctor, not a Pilot →
Margalit Gur-Arie reviews what sounds like a great article (subscription only) from the JAMIA, comparing the history of safety and usability studies of flight avionics and the same (or lack thereof) for EMRs:
Turns out health care and aviation are in the same boat when it comes to computerized display/records. This is not to say that human-computer interaction and other cognitive studies are...
Christmas Music Tip →
If you’re like me, you’re aware that Christmas has become a hokey, consumerist nightmare—but you don’t care. You’re heartbroken, however, that it’s so hard to find decent Christmas music. Sufjan Stevens just doesn’t cut it anymore. My tip, which has worked countless times, is to create a Pandora station from “Christmas Time is Here” by the Vince...
Video: VNC + EMR + iPad = Steve Job's Tears →
That Microwize thought that this iPad demo was cool enough to merit a YouTube video is a sign of how vastly uncool the industry as a whole continues to be. More importantly, it is another example of a software company failing to understand that developing a decent touchscreen UI is hell of a lot more work than just replacing a mouse with a finger.
Wesabe Founder Blames Himself for Failure →
Marc Hedlund shares the lessons he learned the hard way:
A domain name doesn’t win you a market; launching second or fifth or tenth doesn’t lose you a market. You can’t blame your competitors or your board or the lack of or excess of investment. Focus on what really matters: making users happy with your product as quickly as you can, and helping them as much as you can after that. If you do...
Tomorrow's HIT Startups Face a Dangerous... →
An anonymous HIT commenter on the HIT status quo:
Our 5-10 year industry technology lag sets up a great deal of potential disruption for mobile components as the current brittle systems start to move towards loosely coupled modular application platforms like in other industries. Many large HIT vendors are about to enter the SAP enterprise model death spiral.
Music to my ears. But watch...
Blackberry Struggles to Be Cool →
The Last Psychiatrist on Blackberry Messenger ads:
It’s easy to think that the ads are designed to draw in the [demographic] shown in the ads, but that’s not the way advertising works, and consequently that’s not how America works. If you’re watching it, it’s for you. These ads play heavy during late and late late night talk shows: the target is boring middle...
Microsoft Learned the Hard Way, but not Google →
Horace Dediu on how Microsoft learned the hard way with Windows Mobile, yet Google missed the opportunity to learn from their mistakes:
Trouble is that Microsoft realized their purely modular, operator and OEM centric approach was failing to be competitive on the user experience and decided to move into a more integrated approach, closer to Apple’s integrated model.
But while Microsoft...
My iPhone App Development Experience: So Far, So...
As most of you already know, for the past several weeks I’ve been working on my first iPhone app. After several false starts over the past year, I’m now writing and debugging code on a daily basis. Since several folks I know have expressed an interest in iOS development, but—like me—have little or no programming experience, I thought I would share how I got to the point I’m at...