I was listening to a recent Hanselminutes podcast where Scott Hanselman speaks with Natasha Irizarry about User Experience (UX) (you can find the podcast episode here), and a very interesting debate got started in my head. Natasha states that what UX designers do is not art and that design, in general, is not art. I [...]
In software engineering, there is a subtle but significant difference between an estimate and a target. This difference is often overlooked, and can easily lead to conflict that disrupts the progress of a software project. With all of the other potential causes of disruption, software engineers have to eliminate as many risks of this type [...]
A while back, I was discussing some of the nonsensical actions that people take in the software industry with my parents during a visit. my mom told me to look up a poem called The Ambulance Down in the Valley. I wrote it down and forgot about it for months because I was in the [...]
AppGratis, Recently Pulled from Apple's App Store A few days ago, a popular iOS app, AppGratis, was pulled from Apple's App Store for violating its terms of use. The CEO of the company posted a great story about what happened here. Basically AppGratis is a curated view into the App Store, which also works [...]
Recently, a friend of mine asked me what I thought of the "horizontal lines" symbol that is being used more and more frequently to indicate where to click or tap to get to a navigation menu. I really had to take some time to think about it, because I realized I don't usually pay very [...]
