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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

Back in 1971, in a talk called “ Designing Organizations for an Information-rich World ,” political scientist Herbert Simon noted that the cost of information is not just money spent to acquire it but the time it takes to consume it. From 2000 to 2011, the percentage of US adults using the internet had grown from about 60% to nearly 80%.

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To understand the risks posed by AI, follow the money

O'Reilly

The surest way to ignore such misalignment is by focusing exclusively on technical questions about AI model capabilities, divorced from the socio-economic environment in which these models will operate and be designed for profit. The internet protocols helped keep the internet open instead of closed.

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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

When it comes to web content, you can easily find what you need through many different paths, from search engines and social media to playlists and blogs, jumping from one source to another with just a tap of a finger. Designing for Performance. High Performance Responsive Design. Responsive Web Design.

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Eye-Tracking In Mobile UX Research

Smashing Magazine

If you are designing an app or a website, you can test how easy and intuitive it is to complete a specific task, fill out a form, find certain information, or buy a product. Before those studies, web pages were designed as printed media, with columns and big blocks of text. Eye-Tracking Evolution.

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The Best In Performance Interview Series – Episode #2: Recap with Alla Gringaus

Rigor

Alla Gringaus has worked with a multitude of well-established technology and media brands, including TIME , People , The Economist , and the American Kennel Club, carrying hands-on and leading roles in front-end development and UX, all driven by user-centered design. The Internet was built for resilience, not for performance.

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Conserve or Invest?

The Agile Manager

In the years leading up to 2000, there was aggressive spend on technology: insulation against fears of the Y2K bug (legacy software and hardware with time functions that wouldn't properly roll over to 01/01/2000) as well as development of new business and consumer technology to exploit what was then nascent internet technology.

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Rethinking the 'production' of data

All Things Distributed

Developments like cloud computing, the internet of things, artificial intelligence, and machine learning are proving that IT has (again) become a strategic business driver. The founders had noticed that in many companies, product designers worked in a very detached manner from the rest of production. Value creation through data.