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October 2005 - Posts

• 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 Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 26, 2005 11:32 PM by Anonymous | 0 Comments Filed under: Software Engineering, User interface design

• How use cases can help us understand and manage project scope

  In Use Cases Part II: Taming Scope , Norm Carr and Timothy Meehan demonstrate several advantages of using the use-case driven approach to establishing project scope and requirements over more ad hoc practices: The diagrammed model quickly communicates Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 26, 2005 11:19 PM by Anonymous | 0 Comments Filed under: Use Cases, RUP, Requirements

• 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 Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 26, 2005 11:09 PM by Anonymous | 0 Comments Filed under: Software Engineering, Analysis and Design, User interface design

• Intellisense while searching …

  Get results while you are typing … inquisitor ~ instant search Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 26, 2005 10:43 PM by Anonymous | 1 Comments Filed under: Other

• Scrum for Project 2003

  Learn to use the Scrum template for Microsoft Office Project 2003 to create a product backlog and/or sprint backlog for an Agile project management environment. The COM add-in generates burn-down graphs and cumulative flow diagrams in Microsoft Office Read More... Posted Sunday, October 23, 2005 10:10 PM by Anonymous | 0 Comments Filed under: Project Management

• 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 Read More... Posted Sunday, October 23, 2005 8:49 PM by Anonymous | 0 Comments Filed under: Analysis and Design, User interface design

• Book review: Secrets of Great Management

  Developer.* , a site for Software Development Professionals references several all-time classic books on Software Engineering. The also reference Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management by Johanna Rothman and Esther . I read the excerpt available Read More... Posted Sunday, October 23, 2005 8:02 PM by Anonymous | 0 Comments Filed under: Software Engineering, Project Management

• Hardware engineering? - How to build an Igloo!

  Igloo - how to build one Read More... Posted Sunday, October 16, 2005 12:45 PM by Anonymous | 0 Comments Filed under: Other

• 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 Read More... Posted Thursday, October 13, 2005 5:13 PM by Anonymous | 0 Comments Filed under: User interface design

• Automated scalability testing, you should try this one for yourself!

  In a Scalability Story , Eric Sink tells a story about a tool (Crowd Test) he build for automatic scalability testing. This simple tool acted as folllows: Randomly choose an action to perform. Sleep for a random amount of time. Go back to step 1. The Read More... Posted Thursday, October 13, 2005 11:48 AM by Anonymous | 0 Comments Filed under: Software Engineering, Testing

• Should we fix this bug or not? Four questions to ask!

  In My life as a Code Economist Eric Sink tells you about a terrible week he had at SourceGear, releasing three "maintenance-releases" in one week. He argues on the "Should we fix this bug or not" stating four questions: Question One When this bug happens, Read More... Posted Thursday, October 13, 2005 11:34 AM by Anonymous | 0 Comments Filed under: Software Engineering, Project Management, Testing

• 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 Read More... Posted Saturday, October 08, 2005 11:37 PM by Anonymous | 0 Comments 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 Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 04, 2005 10:58 PM by Anonymous | 0 Comments Filed under: User interface design