stevencl's WebLog : October 2003

Friday, October 24, 2003 5:32 PM

Usability at the PDC

Graeme Mott, a colleague of mine in the Visual Studio Usability group will be at the PDC next week. He's planning a few interesting activities: He'll be walking around the conference with a video camera giving attendees thirty seconds of 'air-time'

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Wednesday, October 15, 2003 1:09 PM

Aesthetics, language design and usability

The methods used for collecting API and language usability data are critical and not always the same as when collecting usability data for a GUI

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Friday, October 10, 2003 12:00 PM

Fixed links

Updated the links on my first post so you can now see the pictures

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Thursday, October 09, 2003 12:47 PM

API usability is not just about the API itself

An interesting reference to a paper from 1963 which makes points that are just as relevant today about the end to end user experience of programming against an API.

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Wednesday, October 08, 2003 8:35 PM