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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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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. |
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Oct 26 |
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Web-safe fonts: do Apple devices ship with Arial? Added additional info from comment of author |
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Oct 26 |
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Web-safe fonts: do Apple devices ship with Arial? I guess by "devices", he means iOS... |
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Oct 24 |
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Combobox-clutter… how to solve? and on a sidenote, ye, I'm aware that it's a lot of required fields but originally we started with about 25 required and this was the level where we could minimize it to... the owner is unwilling to loose any more fields |
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Oct 24 |
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Combobox-clutter… how to solve? @JimmyBreck-McKye: the registration rate is lower than expected and normal, and I suspect the fact that comboboxes are kind of... "mistery meat" widgets (you don't know what are your options until you open them) and are generally considered "hard" (in the classic Wroblewski book) probably because of their visibility issues, I'm looking for alternatives, or someone reassuring that comboboxes are fine and the problems are somewhere else |
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Oct 24 |
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Combobox-clutter… how to solve? Oh, it's the second form out of 3... you can search the site, but in order to keep the site "serious" they require all these fields to be able to contact... the optionals are on another form. In fact, this morning I've got a mail because I've written "I'm just testing your registration form for you" in the about me section and got my account temporarily disabled... |
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Oct 24 |
asked | Combobox-clutter… how to solve? |
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Oct 23 |
awarded | Popular Question |
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Oct 22 |
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What is the best photo tagging experience? @VoronoiPotato: I think we both agree, that the best experience is when these algos are there. After that, I started to enlist the "escape routes", mentioning recognizing simply that there is a face. I do agree it's a hard topic and it takes a lot of neural networks and perhaps it's nearly magic, but an OpenCV-based classifier is not unreacheable even for a startup (it detects just the existence of a face). Still I hold: the best experience is when it's not manual labor |
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Oct 22 |
answered | What is the best photo tagging experience? |
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Oct 22 |
answered | Left to Right Navigation |
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Oct 22 |
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Is there any user experience benefit of having a patterned background in iPhone apps? Perhaps I'm too minimalist, but my question is "does it add?" rather than "does it substract?" first. Of course, both questions are important, but I'm a strong believer that a great design doesn't contain any unnecessary elements. |
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Oct 18 |
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Would an “around” search token make any sense? @PeterBagnall: actually, logarithmic scale makes numbers closer have a higher score and it can ensure factors... Linear is pretty bad for representing factors (eg, '' it was about 50000" can be between 40000 and 6000" but "it was around 5000" is between 4000 and 6000, that's what log() is for |
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Oct 17 |
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Aligning text data in a grid Well, it works effectively only if it's part of a consistent grid, that is, the same gap, width, alignment edge is used elsewhere on the page or screen |
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Oct 17 |
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Would an “around” search token make any sense? Sorry to switch on the techie side, but a select abs(log(<searched value>) - log(value)) as score from ... Where ... Sort by score desc; would do it in an SQL based app; this would work well for some datasets, depends on underlying technology and scale though... |
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Oct 16 |
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Placing buttons on section headers is correct or not? Yeah, I meant it as Benny does, we have a nice image uploader feature. |
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Oct 16 |
answered | Managing Customer's UX expectations |
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Oct 16 |
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Placing buttons on section headers is correct or not? Could you give us screenshots or mockups? I'm particularly interested in what do you mean by middle |
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Oct 15 |
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How to represent asynchronous states? @MattObee: I guess it's more like: draft-> publishable -> published-> published with pending changes -> published |
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Oct 15 |
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How to represent asynchronous states? exactly that's how am editorial system works: all journalists can edit but only editors can publish |
