« National Design Awards | Main | New meets old: Wikipedia may go to print »

31 October 2005

The season's best buyer's guide

Uncle_markLeave it to Mark Hurst to not only write an extraordinary buyer's guide, but also provide a comprehensive theoretical framework for doing so. Mark (founder of Good Experience) is a long-time advocate of the user experience, broadly defined. And lately he's been troubled by twin themes: complexity and choice. Complexity in consumer products (It's a phone ... and camera ... and garage-door-opener) has made many useful tools impossible to use. And the overwhelming choices (which camera? which computer? which salad dressing) leave us paralyzed and second-guessing ourselves.

Enter Uncle Mark's Gift Guide & Almanac, a charming guide that answers questions like, "What digital camera should I buy?" with a single, definitive answer. No in-depth comparisons, no feature tables and price lists. Just a single recommendation. Thanks, Uncle Mark! Your free guide is a holiday gift in its own right.

TrackBack

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.typepad.com/services/trackback/6a00d8341c4e5853ef00d834a0dc7a69e2

Listed below are links to weblogs that reference The season's best buyer's guide:

Comments

Uhh, don't just run off with these suggestions. An iPod over many of the other high-quality alternatives? On what merit, other than it's marketing.

A Nintendo GameCube, listing games released quite some time ago as reasons. Albeit, this is off of my roommates and brother's referrals, but a) albeit that Zelda game looks nifty, PS2 has Katamari Damacy and Shadow of the Colossus and more, Xbox has Half-Life 2. And moreover, Nintendo, Sony, and MS are releasing new systems very shortly. Making the GameCube soon to be extinct.

Buy a Mac (unless you're an anti-Mac cultist, apparently). I can understand the virus thing, but there are much more applications available for Windows and both seem to encounter just as many problems on their own terms. Not to justify either, but also keep in mind Apple's switchover to Intel chips next year and where that may or may not leave current technologies.

I'm not saying don't peruse Mark Hurst's wonderful guide, I agree on the quality of the Elph and The Settlers of Catan, but maybe spend the 20 minutes to research your purchases this year.

ps — There are no video games for the Mac, except for the likes of World of Warcraft and The Sims.

Thank you very much for this information.

sohbet
chat

Thanks You
------------------------------------------
sohbet-sohbet odaları-chat-muhabbet

Verify your Comment

Previewing your Comment

This is only a preview. Your comment has not yet been posted.

Working...
Your comment could not be posted. Error type:
Your comment has been posted. Post another comment

The letters and numbers you entered did not match the image. Please try again.

As a final step before posting your comment, enter the letters and numbers you see in the image below. This prevents automated programs from posting comments.

Having trouble reading this image? View an alternate.

Working...

Post a comment

Tools for TED.com

Subscribe to the TED Blog's RSS feed >>
Get the free TED Miro player >>
Get TED and Ideo's Big Questions widget >>
Join TED on Facebook >>
Follow TEDTalks on Twitter >>


News about TED2009

Find all TED Blog posts about TED2009 >>
Follow TED2009 on Twitter >>
Follow TED@PalmSprings on Twitter >>
See TED2009's Flickr stream >>

NEW: Watch TEDTalks from TED2009 >>

Tips? Comments? Contact us.
See a glitch in a TED video? Report a bug >>


Get the latest news on the TED Prize on TEDPrize.org >>