Is consistency a desirable quality of design and architecture? How does it help? How far is it useful to take it? And should it stop us from trying out different things? Alex answers this and more, prompted by a conversation with Uberto Barbini. Links:
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In a recent paper, a Google research team details how they empirically determined the types of technical debt and ways to manage it inside the organization. The ideas in the paper bear a very close resemblance with Usable Software Design, in that the engineers are interviewed about the challenges they face with the design and
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The concept of affordance was introduced by Donald Norman in his seminal book on usability “The Design of Everyday Things”. Affordances refer to parts of the design that point to the possibility of acting on them. Any design needs affordances, but when we aim for usability they need to clearly communicate their goal and way
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