Eldar University - IT and Economy

#IT, #Economy This article points out to a rarely considered reason that drives high-tech salaries up: corporate greed. This is a basic premise of Ayn Rand capitalism theory that individual greed (self-interest) produces a common good. How is self-interest of large corporations expressed today? One of the main forms is the pursuit of technology that allows to create products that can do more and that are easier to use. And therefore, to get ahead of the competition and get better profits. Makes sense, right? Right. But now let’s see the other side of it. Reminder about IQ Let’s refresh some background information that will be very useful for our further conversation on the topic. To be factual and not emotional we will need metrics. The metric we will use is IQ. It is well known that IQ is not the best metric to predict people’s success, however we are not talking about success, and for the matter, we will discuss, IQ is quite adequate tool. So, clearly you know that by IQ ( Intelligen...

#Social #Attenton #AttentionOverload #Neurophysiology #Locality #ITManagement #ITDesign #UI In the United States there is a legitimate diagnosis called Attention Deficit Disorder. Today we’ve got it on the whole society level. We overload people, their brains and cognitive abilities with irrelevant disruptions and information. This article talks about how to account for it in UI and workflow design. Who owns your time? It’s 2am. You just finished the last important task for today and plan to go to sleep. But there is one more small thing – to pay a bill. You log in to online bank and... ouch... the bank decides that you absolutely need to read changes in the terms of service and agree to them. Like you have an option to disagree, right... And right after, online bank UI starts to wonder if you want a new credit card with this new shiny design on it. After all, how can you be uninterested? They’ve printed a cute husky dog on it! It takes a few clicks to convince them that you are not in...