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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://anant.us/blog/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Anant Corporate Blog : Software Design</title><link>http://anant.us/blog/blogs/anant/archive/category/1005.aspx</link><description>Articles about Software Design</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.0 (Build: 60210.2610)</generator><item><title>Executive Summary: Inmates are Running The Asylum by Alan Cooper</title><link>http://anant.us/blog/blogs/anant/archive/2005/12/14/inmates_summary.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2005 22:25:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">bd20fc91-4070-4188-831b-76653376c8bb:12</guid><dc:creator>admin</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://anant.us/blog/blogs/anant/comments/12.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://anant.us/blog/blogs/anant/commentrss.aspx?PostID=12</wfw:commentRss><description>One of the first books that Charles told me to read was a book written by the inventor of Visual Basic. Visual Basic is one of the most popular programming languages thanks to Microsoft and Alan Cooper. Alan apparently wanted to redo it but Gates pushed him to release it. Thanks to their work ( and thousands of others), we now have things like Visual Studio .NET 2005. 

The current design methods used in technology just don’t work. They yield products that dehumanize people. The “Goal-Directed Method” is a set of guiding rules and tools that solve problems they way they should be. ...(&lt;a href="http://anant.us/blog/blogs/anant/archive/2005/12/14/inmates_summary.aspx"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;img src="http://anant.us/blog/aggbug.aspx?PostID=12" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://anant.us/blog/blogs/anant/archive/category/1005.aspx">Software Design</category></item></channel></rss>