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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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Nov 4 |
answered | Are “beginner/advanced/expert grades user interface” within the same app common for modern iPhone/iPad apps? |
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Nov 4 |
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Interesting ways you can provide a client with feedback from user testing? @Andrew: in my practice, working in Europe for big companies, the client involvenment you describe belongs to the realm of science fiction unfortunately. Yes, it would be great, just as world peace, but it's utopistic and it needs your personal charm or whatever just to make them understand that users matter. The usual case is that they pay but don't care, and completely disregard user testing results |
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Nov 3 |
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When can UX best practices be ignored? added 19 characters in body |
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Nov 3 |
answered | When can UX best practices be ignored? |
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Nov 3 |
awarded | Organizer |
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Nov 3 |
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When can UX best practices be ignored? Added typography as a tag as word spacing is a typographical topic. |
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Nov 3 |
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When can UX best practices be ignored? edited tags |
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Nov 3 |
answered | Interesting ways you can provide a client with feedback from user testing? |
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Nov 3 |
answered | How to display points of interest, waypoints, trails and maps? |
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Nov 2 |
answered | Why do people mount TVs so high on the wall in their homes? |
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Nov 2 |
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Why does new Gmail interface has a compose window at the bottom right corner? My personal - hence it's a comment - opinion is that some UX designers are running havoc at Google, as the gmail chat interface is bad as a start, and having this paradigm applied to the main task, providing a transient interface to a sovereign (a'la Cooper) is just simply a bad idea: composing a mail should be like iAwriter instead, as the only mails which usually matter as context are in the thread already. |
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Nov 1 |
answered | Timezone representation according to Daylight Savings Time time |
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Nov 1 |
awarded | Fanatic |
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Oct 31 |
answered | Form layout. Vertical Labels vs Horizontal Labels. Images inside |
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Oct 31 |
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Form layout. Vertical Labels vs Horizontal Labels. Images inside Inlined the images |
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Oct 31 |
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“Likes” vs “Vote Up” For Sharing Content Hmm, think of beauty contests, or contests for childrens' drawings. Although nowadays usually "implemented" directly with likes, they predate facebook by a decade at least. So, no, it's pretty fine to vote with only one option I guess. |
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Oct 30 |
answered | Pop-up window choices |
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Oct 30 |
answered | Users don't read (or even see) things. How can I deliver important clues? |
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Oct 30 |
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How should I resolve the issue of smaller tappable area due to smaller buttons on iPad mini? Great question. The thing is, the precision and size of human finger doesn't change with the introduction of a 7-inch version of a device, so take the pixels as cues on inches on the original device instead. |
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Oct 29 |
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What happens when users register? It's an added security against e-mail compromise (as e-mail is generally regarded an open communication network, that is, a lot of people are expected to be able to read your e-mail) so that noone can impersonate you even with your freshly created user. Even then this could be technically solved either with a "half-baked" session which turns into a full one when activating through the link or with a login form pre-filled with your username,with focus on password field. |
