{"id":845,"date":"2009-08-03T16:14:20","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T16:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aeoneal.com\/blog\/?p=845"},"modified":"2018-11-09T16:18:08","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T16:18:08","slug":"shirky-on-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aeoneal.com\/blog\/shirky-on-purpose\/","title":{"rendered":"Shirky on purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"top-20\"><p>You know you&#8217;ve got a <span class=\"quote-large\">good piece of software<\/span> when people use it for purposes for which the designers <span class=\"quote-large\">never intended or designed<\/span>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"text-right top-50\">&mdash; Clay Shirky<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-845\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aeoneal.com\/blog\/shirky-on-purpose\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-845\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aeoneal.com\/blog\/shirky-on-purpose\/?share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-845\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aeoneal.com\/blog\/shirky-on-purpose\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know you&#8217;ve got a good piece of software when people use it for purposes for which the designers never intended or designed. &mdash; 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This means that once an experiment is performed, whether the results were negative or positive, the foundation on which you are building your understanding is a little more solid, and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;design thinking&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10,"url":"https:\/\/www.aeoneal.com\/blog\/ux-design-as-contract\/","url_meta":{"origin":845,"position":4},"title":"UX design as contract","date":"January 2, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Back to William James again, and my favorite quote: \"My experience is what I agree to attend to.\" Previously I wrote about what this said regarding the range of experience UX designers could leverage to engage users (UX happens everywhere).\u00a0 But there's more behind this statement than the observation that\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;design&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":66,"url":"https:\/\/www.aeoneal.com\/blog\/evolutional-ux\/","url_meta":{"origin":845,"position":5},"title":"Evolutional UX","date":"November 11, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"This was originally posted on the UXtraordinary blog, before I incorporated under that name. 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