Designing User Interfaces for Users
A software user wants to do something, so she is looking at a screen. How does she get to the right screen, and then recognize how to get the program to do what she wants? This is the important part Read More …
The Programmer’s Picture Book
The Programmer’s Picture Book is a prototype for a software documentation system. The picture book treats program code as a graphic object. We are used to thinking of programs as text, and this doesn’t really work for software documentation. The Read More …
Website design
I’ve done enough website building to feel comfortable with the territory. I like simple and clean designs with all the buttons working. Here are some examples of my website work: Tao Soup, built in Flash for Scott Kelman, 2006 Flash Read More …
Training
Whenever we step outside of our well worn ruts, we find a new world. When I took my first programming course as a freshman in college, I got the idea that I would write each of the lab problems in Read More …
User interface design
Good user interface design is not that complicated, but you have to pay attention. So, for example, user interface inspections are a great tool for validating an interface design, and they’re simple to do – get some users of the Read More …
Active Listening
Active Listening – the Empathic Response “Listening first aid” – this is useful when the speaker is unable to think clearly about the problem, and not receptive to outside input The listener’s role is to help the speaker to say Read More …
Medical Marijuana – the Knowledge Base
Acids and Cannabinoids The scientific name for marijuana is cannabis. Cannabis plants contain more than 60 acids which are not found in any other species. They have very strong anti-inflammatory action, and since the beginning of written history, people have Read More …