Tag Archives: Design

The eight tasks in an artefact lifecycle

Posted on April 5, 2007 by stalker

A bridge, building, or piece of software may exist for many years. Or, as often happens in the case of new software, be scrapped before it is put into use. My mate Wayne, a professional software developer for over 12 … Continue reading →

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Inside Your Users’ Mind: The Cultural Probe

Posted on April 3, 2007 by stalker

Cultural probes are quick and dirty way to get inside the users’ minds in a way that standard user testing doesn’t. Probes can take the form of diaries or blogs and are easy to put together using open-ended questions which … Continue reading →

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Design using function, behaviour, structure

Posted on March 27, 2007 by stalker

Last month, at the Architectural Association, Bill Hillier described how English Heritage often want to reinstate the paths and roads of the historic sites they are trying to preserve. Hillier argued that these sites need new pathways as the way … Continue reading →

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WordPress groupie: blogging, fiddling, loving it

Posted on March 18, 2007 by stalker

My mate Wayne is the kind of programmer who loves to program. I am not. I think of programming as a means to an end. Something I have to do if I can’t find what I need – which, thanks … Continue reading →

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Using patterns to shape our world

Posted on March 9, 2007 by stalker

In the 1990s, Erich Gamma changed the way I thought about software engineering forever! Gamma visited the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne where I was a PhD student, in order to give a seminar on design patterns. The idea of … Continue reading →

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