So what is a developer experience anyway?
Discussion on all things related to the experience that a developer has with development tools and frameworks.
I gave one of the short talks last night at UX Glasgow (https://uxglasgow.co.uk/). I really enjoyed...
Date: 05/13/2015
Then please sign up to participate in a user experience study I'll be running from the Edinburgh...
Date: 07/23/2012
There are a couple of great developer events coming up in Edinburgh. Along with my colleagues I've...
Date: 04/27/2012
Sign up now for a free day of training on Azure this Friday 11th November:...
Date: 11/08/2011
Scott Hanselman does a demo of the preview tab and solution explorer at DevReach 2011:...
Date: 10/25/2011
We're running an event in conjunction with Scottish Developers this Friday. A Morning With Microsoft...
Date: 09/06/2011
One of the new features of Visual Studio that Cameron Skinner demonstrated at Tech Ed recently was...
Date: 06/30/2011
Greg Wilson and Jorge Aranda have started a new blog which aims to be a bridge between researchers...
Date: 06/30/2011
Kudos to Ryan Sackett at Precedent for setting up the Edinburgh UX book club. I went along to the...
Date: 03/04/2011
Well, not really, but...one of the things that I remember from a microprocessor technology course I...
Date: 03/04/2011
Since I moved back to Edinburgh from Redmond a few years ago, I've been constanly amazed at the...
Date: 01/18/2011
I was out on a customer visit a few weeks ago, observing different developers at their workplace as...
Date: 12/22/2010
Just wanted to say a big thank you to the developers who came in to the Edinburgh office last week...
Date: 12/14/2010
I just read a great article by Alain Breillat describing the Apple design process:...
Date: 10/14/2010
I have been struggling all day with trying to figure out how to refer to a templated control in a...
Date: 10/11/2010
There's a great essay at...
Date: 10/04/2010
We're holding an event on Windows Azure on October 12th in the Edinburgh office. Full details and...
Date: 10/01/2010
Gergely did a great job last night demonstrating how to build applications for the Windows Phone 7...
Date: 10/01/2010
We're thinking of holding a Windows Phone 7 developer event in the Edinburgh office. Something like...
Date: 08/25/2010
Nobody complains about how measuring cups work. But the OXO measuring cup was designed after careful...
Date: 08/24/2010
I've created and worked with a number of different personas during my time in the Visual Studio User...
Date: 08/19/2010
Parallel programming is difficult. No surprises there really. I came across a great slide deck...
Date: 08/18/2010
There are many descriptions of how developers work, think and act. For a long time, we've...
Date: 07/21/2010
According to numerous studies (Thomas Latoza has done many of them) developers spend most of their...
Date: 07/20/2010
I was reading this paper this morning: My Hairiest Bug War Stories It's a great read but since it...
Date: 07/16/2010
If you ever go to your customers and ask them what features they want in the next release of your...
Date: 07/15/2010
Late last year, I was asked to contribute a chapter to an upcoming O'Reilly book called 'Making...
Date: 07/14/2010
As a consumer of an API, how do you tell how usable the API is? Do you learn though bitter...
Date: 07/14/2010
I posted a few weeks ago asking how important API usability is. At least three people believe that...
Date: 07/14/2010
If you are a software developer and you live and work in Scotland, and you are interested in helping...
Date: 07/02/2010
I used to be a software developer. I worked for Motorola, building debuggers and simulators for...
Date: 07/02/2010
Do you? Does it really matter if an API is usable or not? If a platform is compelling enough, will...
Date: 06/24/2010
We want to make better products. One way of doing that would be to design a product that we would...
Date: 01/30/2006
This conference looks interesting... :-) In particular, this workshop looks like it might have some...
Date: 01/30/2006
I came across an interesting Master's thesis the other day. Chad Austin developed a functional...
Date: 12/02/2005
The Channel 9 video prompted some interesting questions. One question asked about common patterns...
Date: 11/30/2005
In October, James Conard made a video of one of the usability sessions we ran on the Windows...
Date: 11/30/2005
I've been working on usability studies for Indigo for the last 12 months now and have been learning...
Date: 08/26/2005
I just realised that I never got around to finishing off a series of posts on how to design and run...
Date: 07/11/2005
I attended the Psychology of Programming Interest Group workshop at the end of June in Brighton. It...
Date: 07/11/2005
Luke Church watched the API usability presentation and contacted me with a question about a point I...
Date: 06/21/2005
We have several open positions in the Visual Studio user experience team. One of those positions is...
Date: 06/08/2005
Christopher Oezbek is keeping notes about an API usability evaluation he is doing using the...
Date: 05/05/2005
With the task list in place and participants recruited, it's time to run the study. My experience...
Date: 05/05/2005
In my previous post I talked about setting up an API usability study. In this post, I'll talk about...
Date: 04/19/2005
A few people have asked me about how I design and run API usability studies. I'm running an Indigo...
Date: 03/29/2005
The API usability portion of the Designing .NET Class Libraries class will be available from...
Date: 02/17/2005