Jan 23, 2023
PREFACE This paper was written 20+ years ago but still holds relevance today. However, I will be updating the paper to emphasize the importance of user research and testing: Today, user-centered design (UCD) is considered a best practice for interface design, and it...
Apr 17, 2021
You don’t have to spend thousands of dollars to learn to code, you can learn to code for FREE at freeCodeCamp. This site is a proven path to your first software developer job and according to the website, more than 40,000 people have gotten developer jobs after...
Nov 27, 2020
Hermann Ebbinghaus, a 19th Century German psychologist, conducted a series of memory experiments uncovered some alarming statistics about learning retention. On average, we forget up to 90% of what we’ve learned within the first month. Repetition and reinforcement...
May 10, 2016
Most of us have tried to sit through the earlier Presidential debates and honestly, it wasn’t easy because there wasn’t much substance. I recently read an article talking about a Carnegie Mellon University study that did a readability analysis of the 2016...
May 10, 2016
Originally published April 10, 2001 Successful products have at least one commonality, good interface design. As Don Norman says, “What’s wrong with interfaces? The question, for one. The interface is the wrong place to begin. It implies you already have done all the...
