meta user
network profile
| bio | website | |
|---|---|---|
| location | ||
| age | ||
| visits | member for | 10 months |
| seen | 7 hours ago | |
| stats | profile views | 208 |
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.
|
Jul 28 |
comment |
Should table rows be numbered? Depends on the filters of course, however, in general, they need a quick way to identify a row, but both users also need to be in the same context |
|
Jul 28 |
awarded | Commentator |
|
Jul 28 |
comment |
Where do you position the title of a video? Do a user research - show 5-5 videos on youtube and vimeo, and try to ask back the title. Do it on your friends if you don't have money for it. If you do, do some eye-tracking tests - an open source eye tracker with a disassembled webcam costs about 100-200 dollars. |
|
Jul 28 |
answered | Interface for managing public and private profile fields |
|
Jul 28 |
comment |
Why do mobile users give up on the mobile site and switch back to the full site instead? You don't have to tell this to me, I'm much more aware of development issues and cause and effect: tell this to those 80% of sites-with-mobile-version who don't know this... Also, what if the user is from an iframe / resized window? Rule should be: 1) desktop browser always desktop 2) mobile browser with small screen mobile 3) mobile browser with large screen desktop 4) NO tablet |
|
Jul 28 |
answered | Why do mobile users give up on the mobile site and switch back to the full site instead? |
|
Jul 27 |
comment |
From which direction should a modal progress bar enter the scene? Isn't what UX is about? I don't like when UX designers come with a pdf, full of screen mockups or nearly-full visuals, but no explanation on why things are that way.. This is how Xerox Star was born: problem, explanation. This is how design patterns are... This is what design is: create with an intent |
|
Jul 27 |
answered | From which direction should a modal progress bar enter the scene? |
|
Jul 27 |
answered | How can the Copy and Replace message box be improved? |
|
Jul 27 |
comment |
How do I encourage users to fill their Profile @Chris: I didn't say people don't care about social reputation, of course this isn't true. What I said, that certain gamified elements (like the infamous employee of the month) don't hold social reputation value despite the creators' interest. Also,some reputation measures are better to be left implicit inside a community. I also said that if there's no user goal behind gaining this, they probably won't care, which is addressed by your solution of more rights, but it's of question wether it's worth that much for the creators - what do they do with the data? what is it for? |
|
Jul 27 |
comment |
Maximum set of stairs users are willing to climb before needing an elevator ok, it's just that in my country, people stay in the apartment (even if they just rent it) they got hold in their 20s usually until the end of their lives. Therefore we're full of retired or near-to-retirement babyboomers nowadays in areas which were the youngster center 40 years ago (university area) But maybe it differs in your country. |
|
Jul 27 |
answered | Maximum set of stairs users are willing to climb before needing an elevator |
|
Jul 27 |
comment |
How do I encourage users to fill their Profile My absolutely personal opinion is that in gamification, this "if a task is stupid, gamify it" kind of notion will collapse very soon. I hate gamified workplaces (gamified retrospective meetings are my "favourite"). Either something is worth to do it (fulfills a USER goal) or it isn't. Pretty soon users will realize that badges are just icons, and there's no real social reputation behind them, not even inside that specific online community. Does anyone care about my "editor" badge on stackoverflow you think? (it means I edited my own answer) |
|
Jul 27 |
answered | What scholarly UX publications do you know of? |
|
Jul 27 |
answered | How do you make users vote objectively and not from emotions? |
|
Jul 26 |
answered | How do you show non-affordance? |
|
Jul 26 |
comment |
Make users pay up front or after an application is submitted? Maybe a video? I mean, yes, the idea is brain-dead, okay, but a video, a downloadable PDF with pre-filled data, some docs which explain the decision logic (flowchart, whatever) Try to push back, I'm just listing some failback ideas... |
|
Jul 26 |
answered | Is it better to prioritize Innovation or Perfect UX, when budget is a issue? |
|
Jul 25 |
comment |
What is the best way to let a user assign an asset to a contact? Have you tried looking at issue handling systems like Jira, bugzilla, redmine, whatever? Especially the big projects have this problem of having a large bunch of something (issues), handling it to a lot of people (the developers) with a lot of roles (tester, programmer, ux designer..) |
|
Jul 25 |
awarded | Teacher |
