Comments on: Designing Like a Pollyanna: Have your Cake and Eat it Too http://softwareas.com/designing-like-a-pollyanna-have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too Mahemoff's Podcast/Blog - Web, Programming, Usability from the Author of 'Ajax Design Patterns' (AjaxPatterns.org) Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:36:19 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: Instalicious: Push Delicious “ToRead” Items Into Instapaper http://softwareas.com/designing-like-a-pollyanna-have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too/comment-page-1#comment-441488 Instalicious: Push Delicious “ToRead” Items Into Instapaper Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:51:15 +0000 http://www.softwareas.com/designing-like-a-pollyanna-have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too#comment-441488 <p>[...] you can have your cake and eat it [...]</p> [...] you can have your cake and eat it [...]

]]> By: Jon Lister http://softwareas.com/designing-like-a-pollyanna-have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too/comment-page-1#comment-170936 Jon Lister Mon, 07 Jan 2008 14:07:07 +0000 http://www.softwareas.com/designing-like-a-pollyanna-have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too#comment-170936 <p>It's refreshing to hear someone say,</p> <p>"when we automatically assume 'improving X will diminish Y', what we’re doing is limiting our options prematurely."</p> <p>That whole last paragraph made me smile - it always causes a droop in the shoulders when someone says "oh no, that would never work"...</p> It’s refreshing to hear someone say,

“when we automatically assume ‘improving X will diminish Y’, what we’re doing is limiting our options prematurely.”

That whole last paragraph made me smile – it always causes a droop in the shoulders when someone says “oh no, that would never work”…

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