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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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Mar 12 |
answered | Is this a Mapping or Visibility issue? |
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Mar 11 |
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How to improve this retro CLI web app ux? hmm... it's one thing to be faithful to age, and another thing to be usable. The 80s style of working was - as AS/400 basically hardcoded later - "menu-form-menu" duality. compared to that, a command line interface of select it 1<enter> select pkg "mypkg"<enter> add ap "do the thing"<enter> might be better for advanced users, think of a UNIX userland. Perhaps a combined prompt + (text) GUI like in total commander could work? I've found old UNIX command-lines more comfortable for advanced users than 80s TUIs simh.trailing-edge.com/software.html |
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Mar 8 |
answered | How to improve this retro CLI web app ux? |
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Mar 8 |
answered | Wizard UI / Sequence Map. Skipping a step |
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Feb 16 |
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Advantages of integrating chat and messages @Geraud.ch: the concept still isn't clean I guess at Facebook. Regarding SMS-style usage: SMS is a strange beast as it regards presence as ubiquitous, that is, an SMS user is like Schrödinger's cat, both available and not available at the same time. The "seen" solution is a good call. However, I guess you agree that you are surprised when you get a mail-like long writing to your phone this way and you take it a bit rude when someone answers a short line without greeting or signature to a mail. This is what this mix causes, and we were talking about mixing the two channels. |
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Jan 20 |
answered | What are the Best Practices for Server Side Tabs? |
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Dec 28 |
answered | How would you create and validate personas for something that is not a person |
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Dec 28 |
answered | How to showcase UX work? |
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Dec 17 |
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What is the best way to approach usability testing an intranet? The question was about "best way to approach intranet usability testing" and my answer was that the best approach is an informal approach in this case. This is an opinion, based on personal experience and professional agreement, shared between the users I've worked with, the client of that particular project, and some UXers I've spoken about the issue and had similar projects already - it's not a fact however, you're correct |
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Dec 17 |
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What is the best way to approach usability testing an intranet? @Andrew: I don't agree in general that formal usability testing in formal environments brings better results. I do agree that formal methods are important, as a checklist on what should be looked for. Yet I also believe a formal setting has a research bias: you have to watch your users in an as informal environment as possible. Early stress tests with blood pressure/pulse meters were unreliable, as it made people uncomfortable. So I opt for a more informal, friendly "interface" towards the user when doing the testing, rather than making sure everything is lab-clean - reality isn't. |
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Dec 17 |
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Are increase and decrease arrows redundant on scrollbars? @Henry: no, I guess she does scrolling on a vertical way, but never uses sliding controls, like, sidewise scroll ("swipe") to go to a different menu, or sliding locks, etc. |
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Dec 16 |
answered | Are increase and decrease arrows redundant on scrollbars? |
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Dec 6 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Nov 23 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Nov 23 |
awarded | Good Question |
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Nov 12 |
answered | Research on Walk-up-and-use systems |
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Nov 11 |
answered | UI to let user pick some movies (3 - 6) from all movies released till now (>1 M) |
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Nov 10 |
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Absolute vs. Relative mapping interface I don't really understand if the distance is in pixels or centimeters: my laptop has a physical width of 36 centimeters, and it has a horizontal resolution of 1440 px. This ratio of 40 px per centimeter gives us a physical width of 55 cm for a 2200px screen. So the big question is, would people benefit from touch drag'n'drop on a 15 inch screen or not? |
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Nov 9 |
answered | Form builder that allows dynamic flow based on answers |
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Nov 4 |
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UI: name of multiple column interface? added 17 characters in body |
