Jim Lipsey

In product development, a great deal of effort is made in specifying a product’s affordances - the capabilities and actions that it will provide to the user. A product developer in the UK recently launched Architectures of Control, a blog that documents the increasing practice of infecting products with ways to restrict, rather than [...]

I was on the fence regarding the wisdom of Amazon selling groceries. But there is little doubt regarding their new video download service, dubbed unbox. It’s positively bone-headed.
For $13.95 you can download a copy of Office Space (a terrific movie). This file can exist on at most two computer and comes with no [...]