A user’s experience while using a system is a key success factor.
User Experience
Cryptic Error Codes
4 Apr 2015
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Of the many pieces of feedback that have been publicly posted for Windows 10, the following request to eliminate error codes and to use plain language caught my eye:
Care about the User Experience
21 Jan 2013
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A great user experience is an essential part of a successful project - whether you’re talking about the next great website, a wonderful product or an internal bespoke system.
Everything's broken but we can fix it
21 Sep 2012
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If you haven’t read it already, go and read Scott Hanselman’s post Everything’s broken and nobody’s upset”. Do it now, I’ll wait for you.
First Impressions - Visual Studio 11
31 Mar 2012
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Last week I attended one of Microoft’s “Windows Camp” developer days looking at Windows 8. The morning was a series of informative talks, followed by a hands on lab building a Windows 8 Metro app.
Reinventing the Validation Wheel
16 Nov 2011
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A comment by SaltySeaDog over on my post Easier Property Validation with dynamic in C# 4* got me thinking.
Custom Chrome
26 Oct 2011
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If you’re working on an application that uses custom window chrome - whether you’re using Windows.Forms or WPF - then make sure you check out the Marlett font, already installed on your system.
Validation can be the enemy
27 Jan 2011
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I recently stumbled upon a great entry from 2007 on Phil Haack’s blog: Don’t be a Validation Nazi, where he writes about the perils of being overly strict on validation. This is an area close to my heart, as I’ve seen so many systems end up user hostile due to overly strict validation. This can be particularly frustrating when it’s forced on the system by a misguided analyst.
Who's Needs First?
14 Dec 2010
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It’s very common for us developers to put our needs ahead of the needs of our users. Often this manifests in the way we build our user experiences, choosing an approach that is easy to implement instead of another that might be easier to use.
Older posts
| A User Interface Stack Exchange 22 Oct 2010 |
| Typography 20 Sep 2010 |
| Vending Machine UX Fail 30 May 2010 |
| Logitech: UX Fail 13 May 2010 |
| A Great Upgrade Experience 13 Feb 2010 |
| Windows 7 Window Management 06 Nov 2009 |
| Windows 7 User Experience Guidelines 31 Aug 2009 |
| Data Migration issues 11 Aug 2009 |
| Windows 7 Taskbar ... Like! 30 May 2009 |
| Getting the small things right 25 May 2009 |
| Is CruiseControl.NET worth the effort? 24 May 2009 |
| Of Colour and Presentation 04 Apr 2009 |
| Strange Win.Forms behaviour 23 Feb 2009 |
| Readonly vs. Disabled 26 Jan 2009 |
| Scheduling Downtime 19 Nov 2008 |
| Subversion Fun 10 Nov 2008 |
| Whatever happened to responsiveness? 24 Oct 2008 |
| Understanding the Office UI 11 Oct 2008 |
| Unclear on the Concept 29 Jul 2008 |
| Options and Preferences 30 Mar 2008 |
| Huffman User Interfaces 30 Mar 2008 |
| The Cargo Cults are Coming 17 Jan 2007 |
| Improving the Taskbar 29 Apr 2004 |
| Classic User Interfaces 10 Apr 2004 |
| The Asylum 19 Dec 2003 |