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Monday, May 24, 2004 12:31 PM

Using the cognitive dimensions

Now that I've finished posting the series of articles on using the cognitive dimensions to evaluate API usability, I've finally gotten around to adding links to each of these articles (see the left hand nav bar at http://weblogs.asp.net/stevencl ). And,
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Monday, May 17, 2004 11:59 AM

Using the cognitive dimensions - domain correspondence

This is the last in the series I've been posting about how to use the cognitive dimensions framework to evaluate your own APIs. For each user goal that your API supports, describe how closely related the classes and methods exposed by the API are to the
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Wednesday, May 12, 2004 5:26 PM

Attributes and API usability revisited

I posted a query last week requesting feedback on the use of attributes in an API and their effect on the usability of that API (thanks for all the responses!). My query was driven by a study that I was running and that is now complete. I promised that
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Tuesday, May 11, 2004 1:03 PM

Can I see your code?

Scott Klemmer , a graduate student at the Institute of Design at UC Berkeley emailed me last week to talk about API usability. He sent me a link to a paper he and his team had recently presented at this year's CHI conference (annual conference on all
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Thursday, May 06, 2004 3:22 PM

Windows mobile devices and API usability

The mobile devices team has just completed an API usability review and found some interesting results...
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Thursday, May 06, 2004 9:03 AM

Attributes and API usability

I'm in the middle of running an API study this week with an API that makes heavy use of attributes throughout. Basically, much of the functionality that the API supports is largely exposed through the use of attributes. The API requires that you decorate
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Wednesday, May 05, 2004 3:56 PM

Carlos Perez on API usability

Here's an interesting post on API usability.
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