Articles tagged “interaction-design”

• The surprisingly bad PhpBB Ph­pBB al­ways sur­prised me. At every new ver­sion, [the pro­ject is rewrit­ten from scratch][1], which is a good op­por­tu­ni­ty to fi­nal­ly do the in­ter­ac­tion de­sign cor­rect­ly, and still, it's as bad as it was in June 2000 when the first ver­sion was…
  interaction-design 10 data-structures 2 short 50
• Does it look like an XSLT-based website to you? The ar­ti­cle talks about the [source web­site][1], the web­site which hosts the source code of pub­lic pro­jects. Five years ago, I was chal­lenged with a prob­lem re­lat­ed to source code. I had to make it some­how ac­ces­si­ble from any­where, pri­ma­ry to make…
  interaction-design 10 short 50
• Servers monitoring UI proposal In the young in­dus­try which is soft­ware de­vel­op­ment, most do­mains are filled with ap­pli­ca­tions made by de­vel­op­ers with no thoughts about the end users. Bul­letin boards, for in­stance, were an ex­cel­lent ex­am­ple of ter­ri­ble, un­ac­cept­able user…
  user-experience 11 interaction-design 10 productivity 37
• Desperate designs: Microsoft Bob legacy Since I'm mov­ing to a dif­fer­ent city, I had to find a mov­ing com­pa­ny for my fur­ni­ture and the servers. Here in France, the user ex­pe­ri­ence when deal­ing with those com­pa­nies ranges from poor to “WTF hap­pened in the head of the guys who did this…
  interaction-design 10
• Users matter more than bytes and CPU cycles There is some­thing com­plete­ly wrong in de­vel­op­ers' na­ture to be ob­sessed with per­for­mance to the detri­ment of every­thing else. It seems even that this com­pul­sive ob­ses­sion is not some­thing we ac­quire with prac­tice, since it af­fects even be­gin­ner…
  interaction-design 10 short 50 rant 34 performance 14 optimization 3
• Identifiers in bug tracking systems One an­noy­ing as­pect of bug track­ing sys­tems is the iden­ti­fiers. In sys­tems such as Jira, every time a tick­et is cre­at­ed, an iden­ti­fi­er is as­signed to it. The iden­ti­fi­er is based on a num­ber which in­cre­ments every time. For ex­am­ple, I cre­ate two…
  interaction-design 10 user-experience 11 short 50
• 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 10 user-experience 11 quality 36
• Designing a contact form Re­cent­ly, a col­league asked me how I would re­design a con­tact form on a web­site. An e-com­merce site he was work­ing on had a “ba­sic” (as he claimed) form where you had to pro­vide: Your full name. Your…
  rant 34 interaction-design 10
• Edge cases Soft­ware prod­ucts are de­signed for the cas­es where things go right, the sit­u­a­tions, where net­works are per­fect­ly flaw­less, servers don't re­boot ran­dom­ly, and process­es hap­pen as they would hap­pen in…
  quality 36 management 34 interaction-design 10 user-experience 11
• The reassuring save button Re­cent­ly, I at­tempt­ed to an­swer a ques­tion on SE.SE, which was a bla­tant XY prob­lem. The au­thor of the ques­tion mis­un­der­stood the prob­lem he was fac­ing, came up with a so­lu­tion which would only make…
  user-experience 11 interaction-design 10