This montage shows a small number of the kinds of experimental designs explored by the students as participants in the Project. A particular problem is that in a large system such as the Macintosh OS, responsibility for the gestalt is held nowhere, and everywhere, simultaneously. Similarly, in several of our broadly scoped projects, we found that working out the ideas, building the demonstrations and prototypes was only the beginning of the process. In fact, these projects failed to transfer from research to production primarily because of the extent of work that would be needed to incorporate the ideas into production. Without such support, the most that can happen are compensations within the fabric of the system as it exists.
Radical changes are, for good or ill, strikingly difficult to make.
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