Comments on: My review of Yojimbo http://www.intelligent-artifice.com/2007/04/my_review_of_yo.html A blog on interactive entertainment: design, production, industry and related topics. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:34:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Jurie http://www.intelligent-artifice.com/2007/04/my_review_of_yo.html#comment-2671 Jurie Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:59:57 +0000 http://intelligent-artifice.dreamhosters.com/2007/04/09/my-review-of-yojimbo/#comment-2671 Tom: I totally let out my inner arrogant critic after reading Donald Norman's Design of Everyday Things. Once you realize that when you push a door that needs pulling it's not your fault, but the door designer's, life becomes so much more pleasant :) Tom: I totally let out my inner arrogant critic after reading Donald Norman’s Design of Everyday Things. Once you realize that when you push a door that needs pulling it’s not your fault, but the door designer’s, life becomes so much more pleasant :)

]]> By: Tom Scrace http://www.intelligent-artifice.com/2007/04/my_review_of_yo.html#comment-2668 Tom Scrace Wed, 27 Feb 2008 02:09:15 +0000 http://intelligent-artifice.dreamhosters.com/2007/04/09/my-review-of-yojimbo/#comment-2668 Thanks for this. I am on the hunt for a personal information manager too, and this helped a lot. The thing I most want to thank you for, though, is being unabashedly critical about something simply because you couldn't use it. I can't count the number of times I have become frustrated with some object, thrown it across the room and yelled 'this is so badly designed'. People generally have a bad reaction to this, thinking me arrogant, or assuming I have not put in the requisite effort to make the thing work. I am firmly of the opinion that if I cannot use something that has been designed for the general population easily and quickly then it is badly designed. Sadly people seem to be strangely accepting of bad design, which is why there is so much of it. I think if we were all a bit less happy to accept badly designed products the world would be a better place. Thanks for this. I am on the hunt for a personal information manager too, and this helped a lot.

The thing I most want to thank you for, though, is being unabashedly critical about something simply because you couldn’t use it.

I can’t count the number of times I have become frustrated with some object, thrown it across the room and yelled ‘this is so badly designed’. People generally have a bad reaction to this, thinking me arrogant, or assuming I have not put in the requisite effort to make the thing work. I am firmly of the opinion that if I cannot use something that has been designed for the general population easily and quickly then it is badly designed. Sadly people seem to be strangely accepting of bad design, which is why there is so much of it.

I think if we were all a bit less happy to accept badly designed products the world would be a better place.

]]> By: Falko http://www.intelligent-artifice.com/2007/04/my_review_of_yo.html#comment-1021 Falko Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:33:50 +0000 http://intelligent-artifice.dreamhosters.com/2007/04/09/my-review-of-yojimbo/#comment-1021 "I didn't know you used a Mac" Hey, actually it's this year that I have used Mac hardware as long as my trusty Amiga 500 back in the days - and that was 8 years. There were 5 years of Windows hell in between ... until the iMac Strawberry got me. :) “I didn’t know you used a Mac”

Hey, actually it’s this year that I have used Mac hardware as long as my trusty Amiga 500 back in the days - and that was 8 years. There were 5 years of Windows hell in between … until the iMac Strawberry got me. :)

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]]> By: Falko http://www.intelligent-artifice.com/2007/04/my_review_of_yo.html#comment-1019 Falko Tue, 10 Apr 2007 03:42:07 +0000 http://intelligent-artifice.dreamhosters.com/2007/04/09/my-review-of-yojimbo/#comment-1019 This here is not intended to be some kind of information management tool, but perhaps it's worth a look for you, if it hasn't grabbed your attention already: <a href="http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.html</a> It's a writer's tool, and it's the best I've encountered so far. This here is not intended to be some kind of information management tool, but perhaps it’s worth a look for you, if it hasn’t grabbed your attention already:

http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.html

It’s a writer’s tool, and it’s the best I’ve encountered so far.

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