How it feels to make money with Open Source: http://t.co/goxZ5L66 # Airbnb to Couchsurfing is what App Store to Open Source. # wondering who will be the first to write a Smart TV virus. A DDOS performed from milliards of TV sets is interesting. # underscore.js, jQuery and backbone.js are slowly making Smalltalk out of …
Author Archives: MaximFridental
Visual Studio 11 RC UI
Visual Studio is an undisputed king of IDEs in the Microsoft ecosystem. There is virtually nothing even remotely comparable with it on the market. It is so good (for a mainstream product) that it is even used outside of the Microsoft ecosystem, for example in cross-platform game programming, or in embedded development. With already cool …
Facebook mobile app
The Facebook mobile app has average of 2 stars in the App Store with 23k ratings, and 3.6 stars in Play Store, including 631k of one-star ratings and 226k of 2-star ratings. There is an interesting break down here. I also don’t like the current Facebook mobile app. The usual discussion happening over and over …
0X0F
/* * @author: Maxim Fridental * @version: 1.0 * @description: Yet another nostalgic post. Handcrafted in HTML. * * TODO: stop whining. */ Today I’m facing the last 0x0f days of my life as software developer. # I have very strong and mixed feelings about that, because being # software developer is part of my …
This Week in Twitter
Cool, but the UI is too complicated and not immersive. @microsoft, now its your turn. RT @verge LG's Google TV sets http://t.co/CYdPa5E3 # Just posted a photo http://t.co/LwwexMFU # "Männer färben nicht, Männer tunen" – finde ich genial :) # Abstract words like time, movement, energy and life can't be pointed at? Well, I'm pointing: …
This Week in Twitter
RT @verge TV industry nervous about impact of apps on cable subscriptions http://t.co/LO2jfgQn # Powered by Twitter Tools
UX of Airport Security Check
What UX disciplines are involved in design of security checks? Interaction design: Developing clear and easy understandable sentences to be used in communication between security staff and passengers. Developing gestures for passengers not speaking any of the supported languages. Ergonomics: Ensuring that the metal detector gate width and the transport belt height are suitable for most passengers. …
TV set usability model
A heated discussion today at work has helped me to understand how to think about TV set usability. But before we get to the details, let’s first talk about the cars and computers. The UX model of cars can be best described by “There is a button (lever, pedal, wheel) for that”. Whichever interaction you …
Great Frontend Development
tl;cr: great frontend development is not trivial, and requires a lot of power to make decisions. There are an interesting article about how important the role of great frontend software developers is in creating great user experience. They even go so far as suggesting to move frontend developers out of the engineering department and plant them into …
This Week in Twitter
Friday # I liked a @YouTube video http://t.co/GDYlqHOA "Common, Simple, Beautiful" Original by Jennifer Chung # Just posted a photo http://t.co/2ok3XsHN # is seriously considering buying PS3 just because of this game. No, because of this game soundtrack. http://t.co/Tsvh3Nuv # Bootstrap and LESS seem to radically relieve pain of HTML. Next time you ask what …