Ben Fry
Designer working with data; co-creator with Casey Reas of the Processing programming environment, author of Visualizing Data, and founder of the Fathom Information Design studio.
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Their wordsThis isn't surprising, I assume it's just that technology purchasers are several levels removed from the doctors who have to use the equipment, which is usually the case for software systems like this, so there's little market pressure for usability.
↗Are electronic medical records really about data?benfry.com
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Their wordsHowever, in filmmaking and many other kinds of complex product development, creativity involves a large number of people from different disciplines working effectively together to solve a great many problems.
↗Sustainable Creativity at Pixarbenfry.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsIf you give a good idea to a mediocre team, they will screw it up; if you give a mediocre idea to a great team, they will either fix it or throw it away and come up with something that works.
↗Sustainable Creativity at Pixarbenfry.com 2nd of 2 in this piece