stevencl's WebLog

Thursday, May 05, 2005 11:31 AM

HOWTO: Run an API usability study

With the task list in place and participants recruited, it's time to run the study. My experience has been that running an API usability study is really no different from running any other type of study. Here's a description of what I do. The day before

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Wednesday, July 14, 2004 11:08 AM

VS automation samples

I've been asked for suggestions for a list of VS automation samples that would help solve tricky tasks that I've observed users working on during usability studies. Just wanted to check if anybody has such a list of samples that they would like us to

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Filed under: Usability, API Usability

Tuesday, July 06, 2004 10:00 AM

This scares me!

Aleksei Guzev was scared by my last post on readability vs writability. I think what might have scared Aleksei (feel free to correct me if I am wrong Aleksei) is the thought that the results of this study would be used to make a case for adding a Count

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Filed under: Usability, API Usability

Monday, November 03, 2003 3:42 PM

Experts and non experts

I had an interesting conversation with a colleague of mine last week. We were discussing the extent to which full details of a technology or feature should be exposed to end-users. We were discussing this issue in the context of the IDE specifically,

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Filed under: Usability, API Usability

Wednesday, October 15, 2003 1:09 PM