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Teenager’s UX: Designing for Teens
"Teens are (over)confident in their web abilities, but they perform worse than adults. Lower reading levels, impatience, and undeveloped research skills reduce teens’ task success and require simple, relatable sites."
Subset Park: Digital Minimalism for the Working Hacker
The design of a syntax highlighting theme making use of text styles instead of colours. I've tried doing this in the past; the problem is finding a font where the different styles are readable enough...
to design editing syntax-highlighting vim ... on 24 October 2018
What can we learn from how compilers are designed?
Discusses things like "Why so many IRs?". Probably of interest to CMP409 students.
The world's flags given letter grades
Highly entertaining.
to amusements design flags ... on 27 January 2017
New GIMP Save/Export plug-in: Saver (Shallow Thoughts)
If people are making plugins to replace the Save dialogue in your application, that suggests your design was probably fundamentally broken to start with.
"This talk [is] about mostly-text sites that, for unfathomable reasons, are growing bigger with every passing year." Quite.
to design efficiency web ... on 28 February 2016
The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security
Probably best viewed as starting points for discussion...
to design philosophy security software-engineering ... on 31 December 2015
Loper OS » Seven Laws of Sane Personal Computing
One viewpoint -- somewhere between the Unix and Lisp philosophies. (I have a draft set of similar principles for GARStow somewhere...)
to design interface os philosophy ... on 31 December 2015
Collected advice on Unix CLI Design & Implementation (Alan Coopersmith's Weblog)
A Solaris-specific view on Unix tool design. (Not always followed in the past -- I have not-very-fond memories of a Sun disk array where the admin command was "rm6".)
to design patterns solaris toolbox unix ... on 23 March 2015
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