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New blog moved to WordPress

I moved my new blog to http://hij2mc.wordpress.com/ . (hij2mc = how I jump to my conclusions, I continue the name of the blog) I used Blogger some time but changed to Wordpress as it offers better ways to organize your content. The RSS Feed for my blog...

Published 03-06-2006 9:47 by Anonymous

Filed under: Use Cases, RUP, UML, Software Engineering, Other, Requirements, Business Modeling, Project Management, Analysis and Design, Testing, User interface design, KUN - Ninja - Radboud

Moving on and making place ...

This night I set up a new weblog, How I jump to my conclusions with Blogger at Blogspot.com, since I'm switching from my current employer Infosupport to Getronics PinkRoccade. Unfortunately, Getronics apparently does not (yet?) have a company blogsite...

Published 05-05-2006 0:08 by Anonymous

Filed under: Use Cases, RUP, UML, Software Engineering, Other, Requirements, Business Modeling, Project Management, Analysis and Design, Testing, User interface design, KUN - Ninja - Radboud

Sixty-three Habits

Some variants on the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People from Stephen R. Covey From Stephen R. Covey self: Seven Habits Revisited: Seven Unique Human Endowments If you run short of time: Seven Habits Condensed Summaries From Technicat: Seven Habits...

Published 09-02-2006 0:44 by Anonymous

Filed under: Use Cases, RUP, Software Engineering, Other, Requirements, Project Management, Analysis and Design, User interface design

The waterfall process is back!

Forget everything you learned the last 20 years and get back on track. Waterfall 2006 - International Conference on Sequential Development Including valuable tutorials from Martin, Cockburn, Beck, Kroll, Kern and many others. Read about the WUP! (Tip...

Published 02-02-2006 21:44 by Anonymous

Filed under: Use Cases, RUP, UML, Software Engineering, Other, Requirements, Business Modeling, Project Management, Analysis and Design, Testing, User interface design

The 8 Types of Navigation Pages

Jared M. Spool and Christine Perfetti catalogued the patterns they saw when they watched users search for their desired content. They concluded there are essentially 8 Types of Navigation Pages a user can run into, when searching content-rich sites: 1...

Published 30-11-2005 0:17 by Anonymous

Filed under: Analysis and Design, User interface design

The spiral user-experience model

Nice new buzzwords and a post worth reading . The Kick Ass Curve describes the curve people go through with new products and services starting from the point where 'it sucks' ( Suck Threshold ) to the point where people become passionate ( Passion Threshold...

Published 22-11-2005 21:54 by Anonymous

Filed under: Software Engineering, Requirements, User interface design

Value-Centered Design

Value Centered Design recognizes that the point of our work is to generate value. And not just bottom line cost savings, or top line sales through new products. True value comes at the intersection of business goals and human needs: return on investment...

Published 17-11-2005 0:50 by Anonymous

Filed under: Software Engineering, Requirements, Analysis and Design, User interface design

LOTS* of resources for web design

Resources For Web Design

Published 14-11-2005 0:24 by Anonymous

Filed under: Analysis and Design, User interface design

Today, November 3, 2005, it is World Usability Day

“Why doesn’t this work right? What am I supposed to do with this now?" World Usability Day , November 3, 2005, is for everyone who’s ever asked these questions. Be sure to read The secret of making things work on BBC news. How usable...

Published 03-11-2005 21:12 by Anonymous

Filed under: User interface design

Usability studies on Office 12

Many of the Office 12 UI decisions were influences by what was learned in collaboration with the usability and research team. Jensen Harris explains that it is more than just the two-way mirror . Jensen Harris published on the subject before (Be willing...

Published 26-10-2005 23:32 by Anonymous

Filed under: Software Engineering, User interface design

Good Designer Redesign, Great Designers Realign

For people who make websites: An interesting article from Cameron Moll on List Apart : The Redesigners often rely on emotional responses to aesthetics in justifying a redesign. (Our current stuff just looks old. A redesign would bring new traffic to the...

Published 26-10-2005 23:09 by Anonymous

Filed under: Software Engineering, Analysis and Design, User interface design

Bang.Head.On.Desk

Where the old keyboard-based COBOL application enabled a company worker to enter 30 packets a day. But now, with your new web application, it goes like this: Click the New Packet button. Wait. Switch from mouse to keyboard; enter the data on the first...

Published 23-10-2005 20:49 by Anonymous

Filed under: Analysis and Design, User interface design

Links about web usability

Usable Web has about 970 links about web usability, but is not updated anymore. AskTog : Interaction design solutions for the real world from Bruce Tognazzini ia/ : Information architecture news WebWord Usability Weblog : Daily links, most of which are...

Published 13-10-2005 17:13 by Anonymous

Filed under: User interface design

Understanding the limited value of Wireframes

Recently I stumbled upon some articles on the use of Wireframes. Julie Sandford gives a definition in her article: There are many different definitions of wireframes, prototypes, and visual design, so let’s start by defining how these terms will be used...

Published 08-10-2005 23:37 by Anonymous

Filed under: Analysis and Design, User interface design

Top ten web design mistakes

Jakob Nielsen collected the Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005 . Readers of his newsletter nominated the usability problems they found most annoying: Legitability problems Non-standard links Flash Content that is not written for the web Bad search Browser...

Published 04-10-2005 22:58 by Anonymous

Filed under: User interface design

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New blog moved to WordPress

Moving on and making place ...

Sixty-three Habits

The waterfall process is back!

The 8 Types of Navigation Pages

The spiral user-experience model

Value-Centered Design

LOTS* of resources for web design

Today, November 3, 2005, it is World Usability Day

Usability studies on Office 12

Good Designer Redesign, Great Designers Realign

Bang.Head.On.Desk

Links about web usability

Understanding the limited value of Wireframes

Top ten web design mistakes