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Ok people, so this story starts out, I’m shopping for a new cell phone on http://www.wireless.att.com (I can never remember the web address for that site, so I always just type in www.cingular.com knowing that it will scoot me right there.) I’m waiting til midnight because I’m guessing that there will be good sales on thanksgiving day, and there are. In fact, the new Samsung Blackjack 2 just came out, and it’s only $150, which yesterday, is what the original Blackjack cost. Now the Blackjack 1 is only $75, new, or hey, you could buy it refurbished for $100! I really hope nobody’s that stupid. (I have decided to get the blackjack 2, which is twice as awesome in general and for once I’ll have a new phone on the day it came out. Suck on that, iPhone.)
While I’m shopping online for this phone, and checking on the various specs between the Blackjack 1 and 2, a window pops up. It asks me if I would like to chat to a salesperson about my phone choices. AGGGGHHHH!!!!!
I click “CHAT”….
Rick’s post about the cancellation of Online Nation got me thinking.
From my days as a web designer/developer, I have a fantastic book called The Elements of User Experience by Jesse James Garnett, which is a big-picture look at the process of developing web sites that work the way the user expects them to.
The web is no longer my primary source of income, nor what I spend most of my time working on, but I still like to re-read this book every few years, because the principles within are intelligent, effective, and apply to all sorts of projects. In my most recent reading, I was struck by a few observations.