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Personas Can Improve User Interface

Tue, 18 Jan 2005 00:00:00 EST

For a long time I've been stuck in the mindset that creating a fabulous user interface requires a top-notch artist. I thought someone who is a master of colors and graphics is bound to make the ideal user interface. Trial and error has proved this incorrect.

FuseBox Standards

Thu, 18 Sep 2003 00:00:00 EDT

Writing applications within a multi person team can be difficult. Sharing applications between two teams can become even more difficult.

FuseBox Specification Recommendations

Thu, 18 Sep 2003 00:00:00 EDT

Writing applications within a multi person team can be difficult. Sharing applications between two teams can become even more difficult.

The Problem of Complexity: Part 1

Thu, 06 May 1999 00:00:00 EDT

As a reader of CFDJ, you're probably an experienced programmer. But what exactly is it that you do? What is programming? Bruce Eckel, in his excellent book Thinking in Java, offers this answer: 'At one level, all of programming is about managing complexity.' For many of us this answer resonates deeply. Arguments about which language is 'best' miss the point - that programmers write programs, not benchmarks. And in the real world, the greatest challenge isn't to shave a few machine cycles off accomplishing a discrete task, but to build software that empowers users to do their work and (we hope) delights them in the process. Unfortunately, in this mission we have a foe.