Month: May 2012

1. People Don’t Want to Work or Think More Than They Have To 2. People Have Limitations 3. People Make Mistakes 4. Human Memory Is Complicated 5. People are Social 6. Attention 7. People Crave Information 8. Unconscious Processing 9. People Create Mental Models 10. Visual System http://uxmag.com/articles/the-psychologists-view-of-ux-design by Susan Weinschenk

Sometimes it takes so long in an enterprise software company to see the fruits of your work. Here is one case for me. Portfolio+ is the white label of the product I worked on here for the first year. My job was to clean up the navigations and make the product usable. At a minimum… Continue reading My work in the news

Shouldn’t all interactions be instantaneous? Why wait for the app to do what it wants. “give the Instagram user a feeling of responsiveness, even when someone’s phone is trapped on a lousy connection. Instagram Always Pretends To Work Loading Content Based On Importance, Not Order Anticipating The User’s Every Move” http://www.fastcodesign.com/1669788/the-3-white-lies-behind-instagrams-lightning-speed

Even thought he was focusing on Google+ I thought the multiple ways of publishing using different services was useful. “I publish both a daily and a weekly email newsletter without doing anything. It just happens. Everything I write on Google+ is automatically posted on Twitter and Facebook, and it’s made available as an RSS feed.”… Continue reading Many ways of publishing

“This page presents an idea for exploring practical algebraic problems without using symbolic variables. I call this tool a “scrubbing calculator”, because you solve problems by interactively scrubbing over numbers until you’re happy with the results. Background: This work assumes a Soulver-like environment for interactive arithmetic, and picks up where Soulver leaves off. If you… Continue reading exploring practical algebraic problems without using symbolic variables