Over the past three years I have been involved with hundreds of team meetings, stakeholder meetings, stakeholder and user interviews, and design review sessions. A common theme in these meetings are for the majority of the attendees to bring their laptops with them. Many bring them in order to continue working, keep in touch with coworkers, take notes, keep on top of email or use it as a distraction during the ’slow’ portions of the meetings. All of these things really only accomplish one thing, it distracts them from whats going on around them.
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