A Bigger Prison

Bigger than a Ballot Box

Usability, from a Bigger Picture

This paper presents the strategy of Mercedes Sanchez Usabilidade, a Brazilian consultancy firm, to spread the usability concept among consumers and companies in a way that no other company has ever done in Brazil. The strategy made usability news in the media and it is benefiting consumers, companies and professionals of user experience all over the country.

Prison

This work is evidently an assiduous garnering of facts and figures as expounded during an extensive guided tour of penal instiutions. But a book about prison in which no single prisoner appears as a creature of flesh and blood is unmistakably a secondhand affair which cannot take much hold of what prison is all about. However, the material is wide-ranging, useful for reference and a guide to of...

language as a prison

language is man's most important perceptive devices . except for rare casos, language is the only means which leads to man's thoughts. yet at times man's perception is so intricate, complicated and vast that language fails to reflect it, and that is where langugc which used tu release ones ideas from the prison his or mind will yet turnin to another prison confining one's th...

The bigger picture concepts

If a concept is not well defined, it can be abused. This is particularly true of complexity, an inherently interdisciplinary concept that has penetrated a range of intellectual fields from physics to linguistics, but with no underlying, unified theory. Complexity has become a popular buzzword that is used in the hope of gaining attention or funding — institutes and research networks associated ...