Kathy Sierra is one of the bloggers at Creating Passionate Users, which I already had on my Bloglines subscription, but ran into again in an IT-Conversations podcast, where she had some good insight …
Getting people addicted to your web site
I listened to an IT-Coversations podcast from SuperNova 2006 a few days ago about games and education. The most interesting part of the podcast were the notes by Amy Jo Kim describing how games get …
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Corrections to the Joel test of software development quality
I just listened to an interview of Joel Spolsky on It Conversations, and checked out his Joel Test. While Joel has good argumentation for his opinions, I think a different perspective is needed for a …
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Distributed design and development using agile methods and Trac (XP2006 presentation)
I'm hosting a session at the XP2006 conference and here's the material for that session. Also, the title should probably talk about Dispersed, not distributed, since that's what we're doing (not just …
Software design
Thoughts on "Bringing design to software". 5 core processes of interaction design: understand, abstract, structure, represent, detail. Design languages are used to create products and help in learning …