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 …
Month: April 2014
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 …