Bill Buxton at Alberta Ingenuity

As of late I’ve been a little less interested in Buxtons (now Research Principal Microsoft) adventures, mainly because much of his ideas never really made it – they weren’t adapted to real people and the market. In this speech at Alberta Ingenuity he adresses himself at this dilemma by a quote from Alan Kay: “It takes almost as much creativity to understand a good idea, as to have it in the first place.” And “Innovation is not point solutions but understanding and designing it’s eco system.”

I was wrong, Bill Buxton has much to offer still, and especially on the subject of what succesfull design means.
http://www.albertaingenuity.ca/news_detail.aspx?itemid=44

He even have one of my favorite quoutes on design: “The future is already here, it is just not uniformly distributed” – William Gibson