Tag Archives: ui

Android Lacks Polish

By TechKnow | December 16, 2011

I’ve been an Android user since the HTC G1 first came out. Since then, I’ve had and used the Google Nexus, HTC G2, and the Dell Streak 7. I’ve tried to like my Android devices but they lack polish or frustrate me in several other ways. The first annoying lack to details is noticed immediately [...]

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Retweet November 2011

By TechKnow | December 2, 2011

From time to time I just blast tweets about software development, project planning, team dynamics, or whatever else comes to mind. Here is a synopsis of recent tweets and rants. If you want to follow the conversation follow me at techknow and/or juixe. Software Development Making good UI means making ugly choices. There was a [...]

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Retweet September 2010

By TechKnow | October 15, 2010

From time to time I just blast tweets about software development, project planning, team dynamics, or whatever else comes to mind. Here is a synopsis of recent tweets and rants. If you want to follow the conversation follow me at techknow and/or juixe and I’ll be sure to follow back. Software Development Email is not [...]

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Software Engineering in Pictures

By TechKnow | May 1, 2010

In a typical day, software engineers, use diagrams, charts, and a ideograms to represent the software systems we work on. The biggest problems with software can also be described visually, such as the following image which tries to explain problems of software engineering. When software engineering is that complicated, just imagine how the software application [...]

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More Hats, More Problems

By TechKnow | April 17, 2010

Software users didn’t take Knuth in college and you should not expect them to have a Computer Science degree to understand how to use your application. There is no worse assumption that a software programmer can make than to assume that end users know what you are talking about, especially when there is so much [...]

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