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April 2008

New Approach to Usability: Annoy Users

When I saw this article, Microsoft Exec: UAC Designed To ’Annoy Users’, (via Bryant Likes), I thought, “Nah, one of those April Fool’s jokes.” Then I looked at the date—April 10—and realized it wasn’t a joke. In fact, David Cross is quoted saying:

4/27/2008 |

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Communal Decision Making Sucks

Here’s something revolting I’ve experienced dealing with recently: board of directors. What comes to mind immediately is this excerpt from The Fountainhead:

4/24/2008 |

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Bait Station Ahead

Rick is asking, What can you keep in your head?

4/13/2008 |

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Slides from My Presentation on Usability

This is a presentation I gave back in March at the Connecticut .NET User Group, and in April at the Long Island .NET User Group.

4/13/2008 |

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Read Good Books to Be a Better Developer

Oren has published a list of his recommended reading and it reminded I wanted to write a post about this for some time. At the bottom on his post, Oren points to an observation that almost none of his books are on a specific technology. Let me come back to this point in a second.

4/3/2008 |