User experience for a non-trivial web UI tends to degrade over time as more functionality is added and more engineers add to it.

The subjective quality of the user’s motivations and feelings towards the interactions with a product.

From an entry point uncover all of the possible actions a user could take in a user interface.

A book by scientist J.E. Oliver on research and discoveries with thought on how to apply his approach more broadly.

PowerPoint has low information density. It forces the author to communicate using bullet points whcih incorrectly emphasizes (or de-emphasizes) key information.

It seems possible to generate all states of a purely functional UI so that it can be analyzed and audited.

SCQA stands for the *s*ituation, *c*omplication, *q*uestion, and *a*nswer. It’s a way of writing an introduction in a way that clearly communicates the key question a piece of writing will answer.

Mathematician and computer scientist. Important ideas: What matters is working on important problems or work on things that could lead to something important.

Physicist and author of ‘Surely you are joking Mr. Feynman’ who worked on the Manhattan project and won a Nobel Prize.

A sub field of artificial intelligence (AI) concerned with helping agents generate valid and coherent plans of actions to reach a goal.

Applies a result (usually favorable) to an activity e.g. learning (the activity) is valuable because of the outward effect on, for example, being better at one’s job and earning more money

A sociologist famed for his prolific output–he wrote 70 books and 400 scholarly articles on a wide range of topics.

Acclaimed author that looks at the world in a unique way that’s very entertaining.

These days I wake up very early for the puppy ~5:45 AM so between getting the dogs ready and starting work I have about three hours.

User experience is subjective which makes improvements in UX difficult to calibrate since we need to rely more our collective taste and/or talking to users.

Talk given by Richard Hamming as part of the art of doing science and engineering course.

A talk given by Richard Hamming about the art of doing science and engineering.

A lecture from Richard Hamming about creativity and how to cultivate it.

A way of predicting what a system is going to do next when you don’t have exact information (like most real-world things).

Welcome to my notes! I regularly publish notes to better understand what I’ve learned and to explore new ideas.

Something that would be valuable even in the absence of outward effects e.

Similar to Neil Gaiman’s remarks about a fountain pen and writing there are ways that enhance the feeling of a craft.

So much of technology is solving the problem of inter-operating between disparate systems e.

The process of generating a range input values based on some constraints to fully explore a programs handling.