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 [...]
Tag Archives: studies
Usability Research on the Rise: Small Piece of Original Research
Posted by illotus on April 13, 2011
0 comments
Learning Programming Languages
Posted by illotus on May 6, 2010
0 comments
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
0 comments
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
0 comments
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 [...]