The Mindset

My quest for an ergonomic solution for my workstation began a couple of months ago. I spend most of my days working on my computer, mainly writing. Until then I occasionally suffered from some sort of strain in my hands, but two month ago it got worse. I really started to worry about causing myself permanent […]

Over the years I have seen numerous variations of code naming conventions. I have also heard a similar number of debates on which notation is better. In most of these discussions no one bothered to define what it should be better for.
In this post I am not going to get myself involved in this futile war. […]

Yesterday I bought a new keyboard. The Microsoft Natural Ergo Keyboard 4000. I will not bore you with a keyboard review, so please bear with me.
Any way, apart from being ergonomic, which is why I bought it, the keyboard has many shortcut keys and enhancements. The most noticeable one is the Zoom Slider placed at the middle […]

Mouse gestures are the latest word in user interface usability.
After years of research, numerous focus groups, and endless discussions with world famous ergonomics specialists, the Software Usability Consortium (SUC) has decided that the one feature that will make software more usable and natural to users is the ability to represent common commands as an intuitive […]

Here’s a nice real-world story from which we can all learn a lot about usability, design and quality in general.
Everybody knows Google Desktop. As it happens, Google Desktop has a problem with re-indexing files if you move them from one location to another on your hard drive. According to this article, the solution is […]

This is a not a blog about hardware. Still, I can’t help sharing my admiration to this (when-will-I-have-one) keyboard. And despite the fact that this blog is about software quality, I believe we can learn a lot from this piece of art.
Quality and creativity are closely related. Both are abstract concepts, which are hard […]

If you regularly hear or use the term Usability in your work, you are probably a UI developer or a front-end Web developer. In general, the issue of usability becomes a concern the closer you get to your front-end user.
You’d be surprised to learn that the issue of usability is (or at least should be) […]