So what is a developer experience anyway?

According to numerous studies ( Thomas Latoza has done many of them) developers spend most of their time either debugging code or determining the implications of a proposed change to code. While today's debuggers have allowed us to be more sophisticated...

As a consumer of an API, how do you tell how usable the API is? Do you learn though bitter experience? Do you experiment with small development projects to see what the experience is like or do you dive in head first with a larger project? Do you even...

Late last year, I was asked to contribute a chapter to an upcoming O'Reilly book called 'Making Software'. I wrote a chapter describing how we learned what it means for an API to be considered usable. A rough cut version of the chapter and the book is...

If you ever go to your customers and ask them what features they want in the next release of your application, you absolutely must read this post: UX Myth #21 - People can tell you what they want . Even now, after so many research reports, articles...

I was reading this paper this morning: My Hairiest Bug War Stories It's a great read but since it was published in 1997, I wondered if things have changed? What are your hairiest bug war stories?

There are many descriptions of how developers work, think and act. For a long time, we've distinguished between opportunistic, pragmatic and systematic programmers (there is an old and short description of these here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/brada/archive...

I used to be a software developer. I worked for Motorola, building debuggers and simulators for smartcard microcontrollers (the 8 bit 68HC05SC to be precise...). When I joined the Visual Studio User Experience team I had the benefit of experience with...

If you are a software developer and you live and work in Scotland, and you are interested in helping us out with our user experience research programme please let me know. There are lots of ways you can participate - being a participant in a study...

I posted a few weeks ago asking how important API usability is. At least three people believe that it's important. Thanks to Bing, I found that others seem to agree too: David Koelle on API usability , API usability people and resources , Mathieu Jacques...