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keiferski on Dec 23, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: User Experience for Developers

It's a relatively old term actually. I believe the guys from IDEO first introduced it. Very valid concept though.

Tim Brown from IDEO: http://www.chiefexecutive.net/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=&nm=... (sorry for the long link.)

aero142 on Dec 23, 2010 [–]

Which is really just another form of the quote "know everything about something and something about everything."

wushupork on Dec 23, 2010 | | [–]

I've never seen it put this way, but it's quite elegant. Did you come up with that?

keiferski on Dec 23, 2010 | | [–]

Brevity.

nickcharlton on Dec 24, 2010 | | [–]

Its also mentioned in Making Ideas Happen by Scott Belsky.

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