This is really good!

WOW! Cameron Moll can do more than design, that’s for sure. (via Sean Sperte)

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Our job is not to answer questions, it’s to ask the right questions…that get us to the right answer.
Bill Buxton

This is one of the best, most inpiring TED videos I’ve seen. And all in six minutes and thirty seconds.

This is CRAZY AWESOME!!!

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But in addition to basic flying skills, the ditching also underscores another factor pilots should consider in surviving such emergencies: the need to quickly choose a course of action, even if it goes against normal procedures. Barely 30 seconds after his aircraft hit the birds and lost nearly all thrust from both engines, the captain disregarded the advice of air-traffic controllers and decided that ditching in the Hudson was the best option.

“The timeliness of that decision gave the crew time to set up properly” for touchdown more than two minutes later, according to Richard Healing, a former safety board member. “Good judgment allowed them to use their skills to make that perfect landing.”

We need to have the guts to make the right decision at the right time, even if procedure says it “wrong”.

Backup System Helped Pilot Control Jet

Perception is reality

Scott Stevenson has a great post about Satisfying UI Design is Often Illogical. In which he has a great quote which applies to much more than just UI and design.

“The basic idea I took away form this is if you test, make sure you’re testing the right thing. UI success may come from efficiency, but it may also come from a longer-running or more awkward task (by scientific definition) which is subjectively more pleasant to perform.”


It applies to anyone who has a service. In fact it is a better defined representation of the old adage “perception is reality.” I like it; “perception is reality” is now more concrete.