By Eloy Zuniga Jr. on October 12, 2009
Ed Schipul wrote an interesting post the other day entitled Tragedy of the Commons. In summary, the tragedy of the commons is best explained like this: A dilemma in which multiple individuals acting independently and solely and rationally consulting their own self-interest will ultimately destroy a shared limited resource even when it is clear that [...]
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By Eloy Zuniga Jr. on August 15, 2009
Browsing the Internets is normally done … By yourself Watching television (including movies) is normally done … By yourself Next to friends Next to family Next to strangers Maybe I should not replace watching television with internet browsing. “Hey you, person next to me … sit here patiently while I entertain myself with another person [...]
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By Eloy Zuniga Jr. on January 5, 2009
An article reminding everyone, not just UI (User Interface) and UX (User Experience) designers how important control is in the pursuit of happiness.? It focuses on control (or illusion of control) and the fact that people need it to be happy. The article highlights the possibility that slow load times are frustrating not only because [...]
Posted in Thoughts | Tagged control, design, happiness, happy, Life, ui, user experience, user interface, ux, web development |
By Eloy Zuniga Jr. on November 28, 2008
I want an iPhone, no wait I want the Stormмебели. No wait, I want the iPhone on the Verizon Network. I took one big plunge and ended up with a Mac which I am not regretting by any stretch of the imagination. Am I ready to take yet another big step and leave my oh-so-wonderful [...]
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By Eloy Zuniga Jr. on November 21, 2008
Personalized search results are here and the end-users rejoiced. No longer will the validity of a website be assigned solely by fancy-algorithms and clusters of servers in freezing rooms. We humans are now allowed to drastically affect what we deem worthy as a more bona fide result. Who-da-whata? Special attention to markup and links use [...]
Posted in Gadgets, Thoughts | Tagged google, houston, personalized search, web marketing |
By Eloy Zuniga Jr. on July 21, 2008
I want an iPhone! No I don’t, yes I do! Arrgh I’m a pirate. I like my regular old Samsung phone, it has what I need … it’s a phone with text messaging. That’s all I really use. Enter Will. He shows me twitterific, facebook, gmail, gtalk, google maps, google search, the easy voicemail system, [...]
Posted in Gadgets, Thoughts | Tagged att, iphone, verizon |
By Eloy Zuniga Jr. on June 1, 2008
First and foremost I want to apologize for the headings on this article, they are horrible. They all look the same! It has to do with this template and the style sheets which I didn’t think I was going to have to fix before posting. I’ll have to work on that. Secondly I’d like to [...]
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By Eloy Zuniga Jr. on May 28, 2008
We arrived in California yesterday. We took a ride on the trolley and visited Fisherman’s Wharf. It was bare by the time we got there but still enjoyable. We ate at Bubba Gump Shrimp (yes just like the movie) one of our programmers Jenny took 2 sips of a tropical drink there and got drunk. [...]
Posted in Thoughts | Tagged google io, googleio, review, san francisco |
By Eloy Zuniga Jr. on February 13, 2008
Last month I made a post on all the reading I would be doing. I”m pleased to say that I’m keeping up with my studies and it feels nice. Most of my books have to do with Design, interaction design not aesthetic design. While talking to myself this morning – in my head of course, [...]
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