Articles tagged “design”

• Monochrome laziness Twelve years ago, Win­dows Vista was re­leased, im­press­ing every­one by its shiny, elab­o­rate icons. For in­stance, a re­cy­cle bin was il­lus­trat­ed by a shiny trans­par­ent waste bas­ket. Search func­tion­al­i­ty was shown in a form of a metal­lic mag­ni­fy­ing glass.…
  rant 34 design 2 interaction-design 9 user-experience 10 quality 36
• Unit testing methods which are calling static methods Dis­claimer: the ar­ti­cle be­low talks about meth­ods call­ing pub­lic sta­t­ic meth­ods from oth­er class­es. This ex­cludes the calls to pri­vate sta­t­ic meth­ods. Re­cent­ly, I wrote a rather un­pop­u­lar an­swer on Stack Ex­change about sta­t­ic meth­ods in a con­text of…
  rant 34 refactoring 12 unit-testing 6 design 2