How Code Fails in the Real World
Explore real-world software failures, crash reporting strategies, and lessons learned from a large desktop application. Gain insights on improving code quality and user experience.
Navigel to Facilitate the Creation of Tabulated-List Based UIs
Navigel: A framework for creating tabulated-list UIs in Emacs. Simplifies development of interfaces for browsing hierarchical data structures with customizable actions and display options.
Emacs - The Editor for the Next Forty Years - Q&A
Exploring Emacs' future: concurrency, web rendering, LSP support, and modernization. Q&A covers user expansion, JavaScript support, and potential Rust integration for enhanced performance and features.
Beyond Vim and Emacs - A Scalable UI Paradigm
Explore a scalable UI paradigm that goes beyond traditional text editors, offering insights into innovative interface design for enhanced productivity and user experience.
Through the Looking Glass - How User Testing Can Give Technical Writers Better Perspective
Explore how user testing enhances technical writing, providing insights into user experiences and improving documentation. Learn techniques to convert test results into better, more user-focused content.
The Delightful User Experience of Security
Exploring how computer security can enhance usability, create user-friendly models, and maintain a positive experience while addressing new challenges in software development.
Design for Security
Explore strategies for applying design thinking to security problems, enhancing user experience while maintaining robust protection. Learn to create secure, user-friendly systems and educate users effectively.
Using Open Source Communities to Provide Uni Students an Insight into the IT Industry
Leveraging open source projects to expose students to real-world IT practices, fostering skills in communication, documentation, testing, and infrastructure management beyond traditional curricula.
The Awful Design of Everyday Things
Explore how IoT can reduce cognitive burden in daily life, reimagining homes and workplaces for improved efficiency and convenience through smart design and automation.
Write Your Own Modular Synthesizer in Golang
Explore Project Noisefloor: a modular software synthesizer in Golang, transpiled to Javascript for web use. Learn about multi-platform design and real-time signal processing challenges.
The Art of the Linux Desktop
Explore the balance between form and function in Linux desktop interfaces, focusing on artistic and creative UI design. Revive fun, interesting elements from past desktops and learn about theming across different Linux environments.
Information Architecture - Build It Better
Explore practical tools for improving information architecture, including content inventory, card sorting, and user testing. Learn to enhance user experience and reduce support load.
Desktop Linux, Without a Keyboard, Mouse or Desk
Explore alternative input methods for Linux desktops, including speech recognition, eye tracking, and foot pedals. Learn about ergonomic solutions for programmers seeking functionality and customization.
Collecting Information with Care
Explore inclusive form design for diverse users, covering name handling, gender options, and data protection to create accessible and respectful digital experiences.
What Even Is Code? Building a Non-Code Coding Interface
Explore the concept of a coding interface without traditional syntax, brackets, or whitespace. Learn about innovative approaches to programming and the influence of human language on code structure.
Dieter Rams - The Ten Principles of Good API Design
Explore how Dieter Rams' ten principles of good design apply to API and developer tool creation, enhancing usability and effectiveness for fellow developers.
Electrifying the Knitted Universe
Explore the journey of creating an electrified knitted starmap, from viral success to interactive exhibition, including technical challenges and preservation efforts.
Footguns and Factorisation - How to Make Users of Your Cryptographic Library Successful
Explore cryptographic library usability, common pitfalls, and strategies for developers to enhance security in open-source projects. Learn to create more robust and user-friendly cryptographic implementations.
Let's Get Aware of Accessibility
Explore digital accessibility principles and practices to create inclusive web experiences for users with diverse abilities and needs.
Accessibility, Why Bother?
Explore the importance of digital accessibility and its impact on user experience, legal compliance, and inclusive design principles.
Design is Conscious
Explore how design shapes human behavior and evolves through our input, guided by an experienced UX designer's perspective on the deliberate framework of intention in design.