CELTIC MONKS

In the Book of Kells, beauty pervades, but not at the expense of the readability of the text (although there are errors).

Form and Function deliver an uplifting user experience, an experience kings and warriors plundered religious shrines and abbeys to obtain, from the 10th Century.

It can now be viewed at the Library of Trinity College Dublin.

EDWARD TUFTE - Professor Emeritus of Statistics, Information Design & Political Economy at Yale University

Tufte's book "Envisioning Information" shows how multi-dimensional information spaces can be mapped to processing capacities of the brain.

The complex is rendered fast and easy to detect, because its presentation is matched to the Cognitive capabilities of the user.

DILBERT - Comic Character

Scott Adams' observations on modern corporate life and technology just seem to hit all the right buttons

NOAM CHOMSKY - Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at MIT

When he published 'Syntactic Structures' in 1957, Chomsky provided Psychology with the last nudge forward, from Behaviourism to Cognitivism.

It was thereafter accepted that humans manipulate mental representations of their environment (via mental processing) that bring about reasoning, language, imagery and thought. He thereby gave Cognitive Engineering and Cognitive Design a foundation.

Then he did some other quite pioneering stuff.

AYN RAND - Author of the novel 'The Fountainhead', and designer of the character 'Howard Roark'.

"My writing is the projection of an ideal man." A. Rand

THE FOUNTAINHEAD is one of the greatest books of its time. In it you will meet, head-on, the brilliant young architect Howard Roark. You will witness the beauty, desirability and dangerous ambition of Dominique Francon. You will reel, stunned, like the millions of other readers who have assured this book a place in the twentieth century's history, at the meeting, and mating of these two most powerful creatures in modern America.

THE FOUNTAINHEAD is about ambition, power, gold and love - a love so firm that it triumphed like the hero‟s massive stone towers over slander, separation, jealousy and the cruel assaults of those who sought to destroy it. Good book if you are going on holiday.

HARRY BECK - Draftsman and Cognitive Engineer

Harry Beck designed the first version of the London Underground 'Tube' map in his spare time.

He sacrificed geographical accuracy in favour of putting the map's function first - to assist passengers in finding out 'How do I get from A to B; and do I have to change lines?'

He was a trained engineer. It was initially dismissed as too radical a representation of the Underground, but he persevered because he believed in his user experience.

User 'performance' with the tube map has established it as 'fit for purpose'.

EDNA MODE - has a passion for great design

When called out of a fifteen-year period of self-imposed retirement to repair damage to Mr. Incredible's supersuit, Edna Mode ends up producing a series of completely new, matching outfits for the entire family.

For safety reasons, she is very insistent on not including capes in the new design, because capes are dangerous and every superhero who had a cape died because of it.

Performance is everything!

JOHN LONG - Professor Emeritus of Cognitive Engineering at University College London

John Long is a founding father of HCI and Cognitive Engineering in the UK, and a worldwide thought leader on what it is we think we are doing, when researching, designing or working. He was the originator of many of the "base ingredients" of Cognitive Engineering - the "Secret sauces".

Specify then implement {U} and {C}, such that
{U} interacting with {C} = {S} P_A = P_D
Where
P_D = ƒn {Q_D,, K_D}

Q_D expresses the desired quality of the products of work within the given domain of application
K_D expresses acceptable costs incurred by the worksystem, i.e. by both human and computer

KEN SHUTTLEWORTH - Architect

Uplifting user experiences are all around us, and can inspire the specification of digital user experiences.

CELTIC MONKS

In the Book of Kells, beauty pervades, but not at the expense of the readability of the text (although there are errors).

Form and Function deliver an uplifting user experience, an experience kings and warriors plundered religious shrines and abbeys to obtain, from the 10th Century.

It can now be viewed at the Library of Trinity College Dublin.

Click on another faces (above) to view another Bisant hero.