Avoiding complexity is not an option!

For CEOs and their organizations, avoiding complexity is not an option — the choice comes in how they respond to it. Will they allow complexity to become a stifling force that slows responsiveness, overwhelms employees and customers, or threatens profits?  -2010 IBM Global Study

Organization environment is one of a source that would increase and reduce complexity. From my opinion, there is no way to run from complexity in certain organization. Keep in mind that journey to success is always under construction. CEOs need to put strong will to lead his/her organization in a right path on overcome complexity. Complexity exist in many ways even organizational, technical and societal; but the key point here on how organization will not allow the complexity overwhelm their business.

I like the idea of IBM Global study about how CEOs can capitalize on complexity. The idea is to capitalize on complexity; CEOs need to put response in three criteria’s:

I believe that every CEOs have different ways on how to lead their organization. I would like to share one quote on how leadership should work:

"Control is not leadership; management is not leadership; leadership is leadership. If you seek to lead, invest at least 50% of your time in leading yourself—your own purpose, ethics, principles, motivation, conduct. Invest at least 20% leading those with authority over you and 15% leading your peers".

— Dee Hock

Founder and CEO Emeritus, Visa

All in all, the organizational environment and the impact this has on complexity is an important consideration. Consideration need to be taken by the organizational unit. Work as a team and never allow complexity become the boundary of your business goals.

Usability in Software Design

Hello all. Today I would to share with you some interesting information about usability in software design. From the words itself “usability”, that is mean we putting the usability to work. We focus more on the user rather than the system; user centric, rather than data centric.

Usability is one of the stages of user centered development. During the development stages, we should examine several questions for this context.

Is this function will be usable to the user? /hmm

What will be the degree of usability of this function can work on? /hmm

This definition related with user centered design by looking through the user perspective and point of view. We involve user during the design process by carrying out early testing and evaluation with users and the design that take places iteratively.

As example, student identity card. What will be the degree of usability to the students? Before they university release it, the responsible department should conduct a pre-test in which the students work and interact with the product interface and share their views and concerns with the designers and developers.

Now I would like to drag your attention to why there is a need for user centered design in software or web application?

Who wants to deal with such complicated web application? Please raise your hands. From my point of view, human beings have the tendency to works on simple things that would make life easier. In order to attract user attention for the software and web application, the developers and designers should be more concern on user centered design aspects. 

Best User Centered Design | Pixlr

I heart Pixlr..........

Do you interested in photo editing? Owh I do. I use Pixlr.com for the great effects on my photographs. Last week I learned many things about Pervasive Themes in IT, and some of them are User Centered Design. And here we go, in my personal view, the application system which has the best user centeredness is Pixlr.com /wahaha

Why I say so?

Previously I used number of online photo editor, but once I found Pixlr, it caught my heart and I fell in love with it. Pixlr is designed for the user in completing their task in photo editing. If you a first timer and interested in photo edit, feel free to use this application because it is provides adequate navigation mechanism.

The interface is clean and the options are there when you need them. The options to edit, share, save, so forth, using Pixlr’s tools, are immediately provided. It is reduce unnecessary mental effort by the user. Trust me, it will not give you tense but yet give you satisfaction for the great effect on your photographs.

And one more thing! From the design perspective, this tool is brilliant. It anticipates and reacts to needs. That’s mean, its present information clearly by using simple and natural dialogue.  Among many of online image editor, I really agree that Pixlr has the great key principle in user centered design :D

This is what Pixlr give me<3/hmm

Salomon Default Effect

Borg Vintage Effect With Bokeh Overlay

Roxy Subtle Effect with Stripe Overlay

Color-splash Effect

Stop comparing! We are completing each other.

Everyone does have dreams. So do I. Instead of having one dream, I have several dreams. Thinking on how to give back to my country and community is my concern. My humaniversity (AiU), the university that I come from influence me a lot about humanity.

But now, I have specified my dreams. I’m taking IT as my course; there are several professions in my mind: System Analyst, IT Consultant, IT Architect and even thinking to continue my dream to academic related field. 

                  

Okay, but I wonder why do people always comparing; I think that’s one of human nature perhaps. There is a statement about:

“Most CS people laugh at MIS/IT people, “and “MIS/IT people make more money and manage the CS folks.”

What I would like to say about this view is that it is the nature of us to completing each other. A wise man once said that; better live in a whole rather than a part. What does it means? It probably means that we should not underestimate of other people ability. We should not laugh and make fun. Small things sometimes make big changes! IT and CS, CS and IT, the world needs both!

Do you like the feeling of inhaling the fresh air in the morning? Do you realize of human and plant cycle? O2 and CO2 cycle? I told you that we are completing each other ;)

Human-plant relation. We and them benefited both<3

                                       

Computing Disciplines -What Textbook Don't Tell You ;)

 

”While you have this day, fill it with life”.

Hello world! Everyday feeling excited to fill in something on this blog. On this post, I would like to share some information about Computing Disciplines. I studied this topic on week two of my CTT1013 course, my lecturer provided me with slides and I’m done self study with it. I hope this writing would be a symbiosis interaction between you and me that going to benefit both ;)

First of all, I would like to ask you, is Computer Science is a philosophy? Or is it science, mathematics, engineering, art? Other? If you can sense of the discipline, how would Computer Science fit into its meaning? 

Generally, there are five type of computing discipline:

1.    Computer Science

2.    Software Engineering

3.    Information System

4.    Cognitive Science

5.    Computer Engineering

Come on, more is better than less. Instead of focusing on Computer Science only lets broaden our knowledge on knowing the difference of this all computing disciplines. 

Computer science generally is the mother of all computational disciplines that covers the applied mathematics, whereas Computer Engineering is more focusing the study of hardware, software, communications, and the interaction among them.

                    

   

So what is software engineering now? Let’s define this term with illustrations because I believe that picture explains thousand meanings.

                         

                           

Now, Information System and Cognitive Science left. Up up here we go, let’s get to know things behind this principles.

Information System is an academic field, why? Because it encompasses in two broad area. What is that?

1.    The information systems function

2.    Systems development

The last principle is Cognitive Science. The fundamental concept of cognitive science is 

"that thinking can best be understood in terms of representational structures in the mind and computational procedures that operate on those structures".

Walla! Computing discipline explanation accomplish!! :D Last but not least, i included "Computing Discipline at a Glance".

                          

P/s: GoogleFacts: Just to buy an iPhone and iPad 2, a 17 years old Chinese student sold his one kidney.

Internet | Me

·         How does internet affect my life as a student?

News Feed, One Laptop Per Child.

Attention fella!

Vision is the state of seeing. Vision is a long term planning that going to benefit the party involved. Vision of laptop per child (OLPC) is a Cambridge-based foundation. The idea is to distribute educational device for use in developing countries (Wikipedia: Vision of Laptop per Child, 2012).

When talking about this news, there are a lot of thoughts that coming through my head. 4W1H questions: what, when, where, why and how the pros and cons about this planning. As we know that laptop is very useful. It does not care whether you got it for free, as a gift; buy it through cash payment or loans you just will find it more useful if you gets it through hardship. You will be appreciate and use it to educational purposes. Let’s together do this vision successful one. 

"Whenever you live, in every part of the world, laptop will enhance your academic skills"

In heading through this vision, parents need to play vital role to ensure their children use the laptop in a good purposes. Strictly block pornography and gaming sites. Children are meant to be curiosity ones, this attitude sometimes lead them to a bad side of live. So dear parents and whoever going to be future parents, watchout! :D

Hello readers, wanna know more about this news, do click here!

These are some illustrations response to One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) vision. Take a look at it.