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UI Design: Why is That Button Gray?
Here is one tip for your UI design that can really make life easier for your users: “Why is that button gray?” – or smart tooltips for disabled elements. One additional comment: The tooltip shows a lot...
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Software Design With Modern Languages
There is a nice series of articles on IBM’s developerworks by Neal Ford which talks about software design and how modern languages help to come up with a clear and cost-efficient design. To get a grasp...
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Worse-is-better
I just stumbled over “The Rise of “Worse is Better”“. The article deals with the “get it right the first time” and the “get it as right as possible” dilemma. In Software development, you often have a...
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Designing DSLs
Hello and welcome to a new series of blogs called “Designing DSLs” or DDSL for short. If you have used or designed a DSL before, then you’ll know that there are a couple of pitfalls. This blog series...
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Designing a Garbage Bin
Many of us have noticed that designing software is surprisingly hard but many don’t know why that is. The simple answer: Design is the art to balance contradicting goals. Not convinced? Let’s design a...
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Things Users Don’t Care About
“Things users don’t care about” is something every software developer needs to know about. Kudos go to Thomas E. Deutsch for finding and telling me about it. Tagged: Design, Expectations, Software,...
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Presentation “UI Best Practices & Trends”
A short summary of the presentation ”UI Best Practices & Trends” held by Roland Studer of We Are Cube (slides). Short summary: UIs are often bloated, confusing and frustrate users. A major factor...
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