{"id":2219,"date":"2011-10-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?e=2219"},"modified":"2011-10-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","slug":"amazon-usability-eduscotict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/amazon-usability-eduscotict\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Usability &#8211; #EDUScotICT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class='posterous_autopost'>\n<div class=\"posterous_bookmarklet_entry\">\n<blockquote class=\"posterous_medium_quote\"><p>The other big realization he had was that he can\u2019t always build the right thing. I think Larry Tesler might have struck some kind of chord in Bezos when he said his mom couldn\u2019t use the goddamn website. It\u2019s not even super clear whose mom he was talking about, and doesn\u2019t really matter, because nobody\u2019s mom can use the goddamn website. In fact I myself find the website disturbingly daunting, and I worked there for over half a decade. I\u2019ve just learned to kinda defocus my eyes and concentrate on the million or so pixels near the center of the page above the fold.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"posterous_quote_citation\">via   <a href=\"http:\/\/siliconangle.com\/furrier\/2011\/10\/12\/google-engineer-accidently-shares-his-internal-memo-about-google-platform\/\">Google Engineer Accidently Shares His Internal Memo About Google + Platform | Unfiltered Opinion From Silicon Valley<\/a> I saw this on <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/107301472867098211430\/posts\/CmoKiqhNy5c\">Josie Fraser &#8211; Google+ &#8211; Google engineer accidently shares internal memo about\u2026<\/a><\/div>\n<p>A lesson for #EDUScotICT I think. Amazon can have a site that is tricky for folk to use because people really want the service. They really want to buy that book, hard drive or whatever. Glow on the other hand is not something people really want so it has to be a lot more usable and accessible.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other big realization he had was that he can\u2019t always build the right thing. I think Larry Tesler might have struck some kind of chord in Bezos when he said his mom couldn\u2019t use the goddamn website. It\u2019s not even super clear whose mom he was talking about, and doesn\u2019t really matter, because nobody\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"post_format":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2219","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-wwwd","7":"kind-","8":"h-entry","9":"hentry"},"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-zN","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2219"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=2219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}