Comments on: Feeling dopey about technology http://maadmob.net/donna/blog/2003/feeling-dopey-about-technology Information architecture, interaction design and much more Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:51:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Chad Lundgren http://maadmob.net/donna/blog/2003/feeling-dopey-about-technology#comment-167 Chad Lundgren Fri, 11 Apr 2003 18:05:48 +0000 http://maadmob.net/donna/blog/2003/feeling-dopey-about-technology#comment-167 This story reminds me of the time I was on a "short attention span" panel at a convention I help run where topics had to be changed every 3 minutes at most. As the proposor, I had the honor of running a digital kitchen timer, which I had never used before. Turning the clock on and off was easy, but the moderator kept killing topics before the 3 minutes were up. Scrambling to reset the time to the 3 minutes quickly made me feel quite foolish. Under such circumstances, an old-fashioned round dial timer would be much easier to use. This story reminds me of the time I was on a “short attention span” panel at a convention I help run where topics had to be changed every 3 minutes at most. As the proposor, I had the honor of running a digital kitchen timer, which I had never used before.

Turning the clock on and off was easy, but the moderator kept killing topics before the 3 minutes were up. Scrambling to reset the time to the 3 minutes quickly made me feel quite foolish. Under such circumstances, an old-fashioned round dial timer would be much easier to use.

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