{"id":20,"date":"2005-11-29T04:55:07","date_gmt":"2005-11-29T11:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/?p=20"},"modified":"2005-11-29T04:55:07","modified_gmt":"2005-11-29T11:55:07","slug":"sex-sells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/sex-sells\/","title":{"rendered":"Sex sells&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>well the opposite sex.. this is not necessarily related to thesis directly but i thought id rant about it, because this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/magazine\/content\/05_48\/b3961113.htm?chan=tc?campaign_id=rss_tech\">BusinessWeek<\/a> article on Dell suddenly realizing that women buy electronics too is maddening. This is more than obvious and slightly frustrating that in 2005, after more than 20 years of computational history, they would snap out of it and do more than &#8220;ooo lets make the ipod cover pink!&#8221;&#8230; Brings me back to a blog post on <a href=\"http:\/\/37signals.com\/svn\/archives2\/software_for_women.php\">37 signals<\/a> which debated the very silli question of whether software was developped for men and not women. I mean this is a little bit of a double edged sword in a way because if that&#8217;s what companies are suggesting, that women are different types of users, then how? and when are they going to cater to them, and how on earth are we different users? I think they should spend more time thinking about making things easier generally and more specifically for people with disabilities who have more direct issues with technology then the color of the interface&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>well the opposite sex.. this is not necessarily related to thesis directly but i thought id rant about it, because this BusinessWeek article on Dell suddenly realizing that women buy electronics too is maddening. This is more than obvious and slightly frustrating that in 2005, after more than 20 years of computational history, they would&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/sex-sells\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sex sells&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p41XhY-k","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}