I did some searches with ACM Portal for journal and magazine articles that mention usability. The results in table below. Years Articles Mentioning Usability Total Articles % of Articles Mention Usability 1991-1995 62 2273 2.7% 1996-2000 377 5949 6.3% 2001-2005 861 8909 9,7% 2006-2010 970 10076 9,6% I also did a rudimentary check on how [...]
Category Archives: studies
Usability Research on the Rise: Small Piece of Original Research
Posted by illotus on April 13, 2011
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Estimating: Frustration and Amusement
Posted by illotus on April 12, 2011
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It goes like this: someone estimates how long it should take you to code a piece of software. You know the estimate is unrealistic and that no way you are going to make it. So you would imagine that you would just shrug your shoulders and code at whatever pace you are comfortable, not really [...]
Learning Programming Languages
Posted by illotus on May 6, 2010
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I think learning new programming languages is both easy and very difficult. Syntax is nearly always easy, but understanding when to use a language and what are its strong points. Failing at this leads to the familiar “when all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.” On the other hand I [...]
Teamwork For The Win
Posted by illotus on April 3, 2010
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Lately I’ve been doing research for my thesis. The thing is, planning card sorting and heuristic evaluation alone without a lot of experience isn’t much fun. I’d extrapolate this to any kind of reasonable difficult pursuit. It’s always easier with a team or partner even if every one is inexperienced. Of course this is parallel [...]
Everything is interesting
Posted by illotus on December 28, 2009
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There is whole lotta stuff I want to learn or relearn. Like C design patterns programming language design agile tdd information structuring to name a few. I studied C back in 2002-2003 and C++ with touch of Symbian later. However I’m not sure if I should include those in my CV. Design patterns I did [...]
Jack-Of-All or Master of Some
Posted by illotus on December 26, 2009
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I’ve been reading the Coders at Work during Christmas and one thing keeps nagging at me: the expertise of the interviewed programmers is narrow. There are a few who are more of the Jack-Of-All variety, but most just have mostly done one thing, but done it a lot. This kinda leads to thinking how much [...]