October 2003 - Posts

• Usability at the PDC

  Graeme Mott, a colleague of mine in the Visual Studio Usability group will be at the PDC next week. He's planning a few interesting activities: He'll be walking around the conference with a video camera giving attendees thirty seconds of 'air-time' Read More... Posted Friday, October 24, 2003 5:32 PM by stevencl | 2 Comments Filed under: Usability

• Aesthetics, language design and usability

  The methods used for collecting API and language usability data are critical and not always the same as when collecting usability data for a GUI Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 15, 2003 1:09 PM by stevencl | 4 Comments Filed under: Usability, API Usability

• Fixed links

  Updated the links on my first post so you can now see the pictures Read More... Posted Friday, October 10, 2003 12:00 PM by stevencl | 0 Comments

• API usability is not just about the API itself

  An interesting reference to a paper from 1963 which makes points that are just as relevant today about the end to end user experience of programming against an API. Read More... Posted Thursday, October 09, 2003 12:47 PM by stevencl | 0 Comments Filed under: API Usability

• API usability and the cognitive dimensions framework

  A short description of the framework that we use at Microsoft to measure API usability Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 08, 2003 8:35 PM by stevencl | 10 Comments Filed under: Usability, API Usability