Category: distributed cognition
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Designing For Real Users

Recently, I spoke with a colleague who was serving on a design committee for a new company intranet site. He kept coming back to the problem of determining the placement of the CEO’s vision message, as the interface was starting to look rather cluttered. A senior marketing consultant was the lone holdout against this obvious
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Coordination, Cooperation, and Collaboration

I was musing about the differences between these three concepts. They are not explained clearly in any resource I could find (although many people take a stab at this), so I thought I’d try bending my brain around the problem. The three types of collectivity appear goal-oriented (as in, sharing a common purpose), but there
