Exploring Extreme Programming
Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, by Steve Krug. New Riders Press, 2005. This thin book provides guidance on the basics of web usability. It focuses on the importance of doing things in a way Continue reading Review – Don’t Make Me Think (Krug)
Activity Theory is a framework that provides some insight into issues around how people use tools. This is a small summary of some of its ideas. Continue reading Interface Seams: Activity Theory
Things that Make Us Smart, Donald A. Norman, Perseus Books, 1993. Similar in tone and scope to his other books (that’s an endorsement:), Things that Make Us Smart explores ways in which we use artifacts to improve our cognitive abilities. Continue reading Review – Things that Make Us Smart
Paper Prototyping, by Carolyn Snyder. Morgan Kaufmann, 2003. The “Scandinavian design” tradition in human-computer interaction says that people should be involved in creating the systems they will have to use. Electronic tools for rapid screen design may provide a high-fidelity Continue reading Review – Paper Prototyping
Ubiquitous computing may be worth pursuing. Continue reading Interface Seams: Ubiquity
GUIs aren’t the end. Continue reading Interface Seams: Leaving the Desktop Behind
These patterns describe some of the forces and decisions to be made while implementing an interactive application. [This is a submission to PLoP’98.] Continue reading Interface Seams: Patterns for Interactive Applications
Groupware is often examined on the dimensions of time and place; ad-hoc vs. planned collaboration introduces a new dimension. Continue reading Interface Seams: Ad-Hoc vs. Planned Collaboration
There are several approaches to computers and sound. Continue reading Interface Seams: Sound and Computers
Spreadsheets have traditionally been based on a rectangular grid. We’ll look into simplifying formulas, and then at data structures other than a matrix. Spreadsheets often have columns specified by alphabetic labels, and numbered rows. A specific cell can be identified Continue reading Interface Seams: Rethinking the Spreadsheet