I was reading through the new Office 2007 UI Style Guide and found the following UI Design Tenet:
No surprises. Task panes or dialogs do not appear automatically on document open. Only user actions should open and close task panes or dialogs. Ideally, all task panes are opened using a button in the Ribbon.
Many developers and [...]
Monthly Archives: September 2006
OMG We’re All Going To Die-alog!
Usability Testing is Useless?
An article posted on Adaptive Path’s web site from back in 2004 has started making the rounds on digg, dzone and soon my entire OPML file. The article is dolefully titled “90% of All Usability Testing is Useless.” Go ahead and read the article. I’ll wait.
All done? This article really struck a chord with me. [...]
Recruiting Top Talent
Lately there has been a lot of discussion about finding top software development talent. Coincidentally I just attended a class on recruiting and selection given by Dr. Kyle Lewis. It’s amazing, when you are presented with the actual research statistics, how much of a failure current recruiting tactics are. Check out the reliability and validity [...]
Here we go!
Well, here’s the first post. I guess we have to start somewhere so this is where we start. Look forward to some real content shortly. Right now I’ve got to twiddle a few more knobs and make sure everything’s working.