The screen area of any smartphone is significantly smaller than that of a laptop or desktop computer. Which means much less information fits on it. Let’s look at an example of a “news feed” type application below:
The standard Helvetica font is used here. You can see that only …
Stack Overflow is a site where people go out of their way to help other people find answers to programming questions. My colleagues won’t let me lie: more than half of all questions can be solved by searching this site. The idea of creating such a site turned out …
To designers who sign off on an interface like this, all non-English-speaking users are pygmies. They think they can shove a surrogate, a fake at us and we’ll be happy with it and settle for it.
That’s where the whole great meaning of “I took a photo” in …
I recently noticed a chart in the Google Analytics software.
Here we see a comparison of two metrics: the blue line shows the number of visits (Visits), and the light-blue one shows the number of unique visitors (Unique Visitors). Take another look at the chart and answer the question: which …
The most important guideline when writing code is to separate method implementations with several blank lines and a comment line. Despite modern IDEs’ capabilities for searching and structuring source code, visual orientation still plays an important role.
Consider the example below. There is an implementation of a class in Objective-C …
And I completely forgot!
Funny how their calendar shows December 2012.
Could it really be the end?
Every now and then various corporations publish shorts about the future: “What will things be like with information technology after the 2012 presidential election in the Russian Federation?” The latest film is published by Microsoft.
Productivity Future Vision (2011)
A few weeks after watching it, I came across the musings …
Reader Maxim asked me to write some notes about the usability of the user interface in Eclipse.
Dear Maxim!
I haven’t yet managed to take advantage of all the benefits of the integrated development environment “Eclipse,” version 3.7.1, item M20110909-1335, because for two hours straight now I …