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I'm a software architect. Yeah, what do I do on a UX site, you may ask?
Software design - a nowadays largely forgotten discipline - is about making software which solve human problems. The difference between today's UX and yesterday's software design is that UX has to stop at the point where technology gets involved, while software design goes right to the point where the software is at the user's hand, and even further - covering development processes, testing, deployment, whatever needs to get that software working.
Whatever it takes to make people's life easier, to make people's life more effective, to make people work with less stress, through software.
I'm an architect with a focus on frontend, and a proficiency in web-languages and web architectures.
I worked as lead developer / software architect for startups and well-known companies, and when it was realized I'm not that bad at user interfaces, I worked as a UX designer for a well-known finnish company.
So, ask me if you have any questions on how it gets done: how do we solve problems for humans through software.
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May 19 |
answered | What makes OpenID so difficult to use by persons with no technical background? |
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May 16 |
answered | Phone or Tablet mockups: chicken or the egg? |
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May 14 |
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Hungriness chart - where to find? Thx :) I already have a male and a female persona. However, I'm thinking about having a timeline chart of 24 hours, with "I'm literally starving" and "I can't even look at food" as edge cases for each. We'd likely serve main courses only after the effects of appetizers wore off a bit. I know this is a bit of "half-scientific", perhaps even pseudo-scientific, but that's the fun part, isn't it?:) |
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May 13 |
asked | Hungriness chart - where to find? |
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Apr 28 |
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Progress bar that allows to understand both current and maximum values Or Guitar Hero, for that matter. |
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Apr 27 |
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Break up options in a drop down by scope @norabora: I still think there's a wording issue, affecting the mental model. How about "Shut down Object"? or at least close down... Also, make sure you make some kind of feedback about it, like a "Closed" sign - I'm not a big fan of confirmation messages, but a shop closed sign in a cartoon or photo and a sure-you-want-to-do-this-yesno in a dialog might help... |
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Apr 27 |
answered | UX for a system that converts between units of weight and volume |
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Apr 25 |
answered | Is it useful keeping “foveal vision” in mind when arranging content? |
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Apr 24 |
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When is Skeuomorphism appropriate in an iOS app? See my old answer, perhaps that would help you: ux.stackexchange.com/questions/22093/… - takeaway: you can be skeuromorph only compared to devices and tools used in our present day. |
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Apr 23 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Apr 22 |
answered | How to present weighted values |
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Apr 22 |
answered | Alerting visitors to a website of a current event (e.g. breaking news) |
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Apr 22 |
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Quick Booking UX/UI design Oh, a grid is a good start: it shows that the creator (designer) knows and cares about alignment. Proximity is more important, that's true, alao that repetition should be considered, but it's a good start, compared to the forms I've seen designed. |
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Apr 22 |
answered | Quick Booking UX/UI design |
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Mar 26 |
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Maximum set of stairs users are willing to climb before needing an elevator @NicolasBarbulesco of course it is, but I felt that's obvious and left it out |
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Mar 26 |
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Maximum set of stairs users are willing to climb before needing an elevator @André: oh, my situation is easier... I have architect friends ;) truth to be said, they don't really test it afterwards. Part of the reason is, when it's a private house, it would feel odd to revisit it regularly. A second part is, that just like in IT, design and construction is done by different teams and it's hard for them to witness their design "ruined" every single time. I still recommend to read Christopher Alexander's works, like the way he designed the Eishin Campus (that's in 3rd part of Nature of Order I guess) |
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Mar 26 |
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Maximum set of stairs users are willing to climb before needing an elevator @André: let's not mix usability with accessibility. Being able to handle disabled people is an accessibility issue. Usability is - and always was - a key issue in architecture, from mundane things - height of a basin for handwashing - to overall design things, like height of floors. On a sidenote, I believe, living in a place is the original user experience design, you have to deal with so many things... For details on architectural usability, refer to Alexander's A Pattern Language / A Timeless Way of Building, a required textbook in some architectural schools. |
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Mar 13 |
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Is this a Mapping or Visibility issue? Affordance is when you don't know how to deal with a certain appliance: do you need to press it, to pull it or turn it? In case the trick is to pull one of these while it doesn't seem to be pullable (eg: no outer edge or texture to pull with), then yes, it's also an affordance issue. Mapping is when you don't know which lightswitch is for which light, as it's outlined in Norman's Design Of Everyday Things. |
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Mar 13 |
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How to avoid hiding the region of interest with the finger? Good question, do you plan to put anything there? :) Perhaps you could calculate the "angle of attack" from the first few movements of the finger... |
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Mar 12 |
answered | How to avoid hiding the region of interest with the finger? |
