Slideshare Presentation of Object Oriented Approach (OAD) to Screen Specifications.
I am documenting all the details behind the presentation at oad.humansize.com
The introduction is complete. I plan on publishing one section a week for the next two months. I will update my blog as status changes.
February 25, 2009
At the Gartner Wireless conference
Been attending the wireless conference at Gartner in Chicago. Some great stuff is being discussed.
The completely obvious, but no less disheartening, reality is that we will have multiple mobile platforms for the mid to short term. This is something I have felt to be true for a while, but to keep hearing it and to see the facts of it all over the place is depressing.
I could see real innovation and real productivity happening if we had 1 or 2 mobile platforms to design and develop for. But the new reality to wrap our heads around is how to live in a world where it will be like this for the mid-term.
With relation to OAD. I am nearly done with the intro section of it. I will be posting a status update here when it is ready. My plan is to push it out as each section is ready. I will then post the intro to
The completely obvious, but no less disheartening, reality is that we will have multiple mobile platforms for the mid to short term. This is something I have felt to be true for a while, but to keep hearing it and to see the facts of it all over the place is depressing.
I could see real innovation and real productivity happening if we had 1 or 2 mobile platforms to design and develop for. But the new reality to wrap our heads around is how to live in a world where it will be like this for the mid-term.
With relation to OAD. I am nearly done with the intro section of it. I will be posting a status update here when it is ready. My plan is to push it out as each section is ready. I will then post the intro to
February 21, 2009
Progress report
I now have a basic handle on what Google Sites and blogger are going to let me do when I own the domain name. I liked the greater flexibility I had when I used a traditional hosting solution for my domain name, but using the Google tools to do it is so much cheaper.
Currently, I am using the pre-canned design templates for both sites. I want to spend my time getting the content up then learning Blogger's and Google Sites template language. One day I will work on it (and saying it here is my incentive to actually do it someday)
Currently, I am using the pre-canned design templates for both sites. I want to spend my time getting the content up then learning Blogger's and Google Sites template language. One day I will work on it (and saying it here is my incentive to actually do it someday)
February 20, 2009
Hiatus
After much too long of a hiatus, I am starting to blog again. A lot has happened in the past few years. Mainly a new baby. But I have also spent a lot of time exploring the idea I had for Object-oriented wire frame design.
That exploration resulted in me giving a talk at Interactions 09 in Vancouver. At the talk I called if Object-Oriented Design. But I never liked that since it can easily become confused with Object-oriented programming. While the inspiration came from that technique, it adds confusion.
I am now calling it Object-Oriented Approach to Design (OAD, rhymes with Ode).
I received a lot of interest from folks at the conference, so that has got me back to wanting to blog.
I will be using Google sites to host my write-up of what I talked about. This blog will mainly serve for status updates and random musings.
That exploration resulted in me giving a talk at Interactions 09 in Vancouver. At the talk I called if Object-Oriented Design. But I never liked that since it can easily become confused with Object-oriented programming. While the inspiration came from that technique, it adds confusion.
I am now calling it Object-Oriented Approach to Design (OAD, rhymes with Ode).
I received a lot of interest from folks at the conference, so that has got me back to wanting to blog.
I will be using Google sites to host my write-up of what I talked about. This blog will mainly serve for status updates and random musings.
November 09, 2005
Harbingers of usability problems: 2. Lets see how Microsoft(TM) did it
Not to disparage Microsoft tm, insert the name of any vendor of major desktop applications here. When the team decides that the current design seems tricky or when the team can not come up with a good way of designing the functionality, a third party reference is a common resort. Looking to a major supplier of software your users use is a good way to leverage inter-application consistency. But as will become a recurrent theme in this paper, the dogma of consistency could be a trap.
If you are copying a rarely used interaction, then you will be gaining nothing by being consistent. Or, the functionality you are copying may be a known usability problem that the supplier has not yet addressed.
If you are copying a rarely used interaction, then you will be gaining nothing by being consistent. Or, the functionality you are copying may be a known usability problem that the supplier has not yet addressed.
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