UX Design for a Desktop App
19 May 2017
This summer, I and 6 other students will be building a desktop application in Electron to allow users to easily create and maintain TechFolios profiles. Our first task is to identify pain points in the existing TechFolios experience, using Github....
User Experience
Design Planning
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UX Assessment for a Student Portal
20 Feb 2017
During a course on Human Computer Interaction, we were asked to evaluate the usability of a new version of a website that all UH students use on a regular basis: MyUH, a gateway page to many student services including course...
User Experience
Nielsen's Heuristic Evaluation
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Meteorite, the Movie Pitch
20 Oct 2016
Foreword Once upon a time, in late 2016, a student developer was working on what seemed like a straightforward assignment in JavaScript, using the Meteor framework. He had been using a hand-me-down laptop, passed on from relatives, and while it...
Meteor
Troubleshooting
VirtualBox
Linux
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Which came first, the chicken or chickenHub?
12 Sep 2016
The first time I ran into the issue of configuration management, or at least version control, was not in a software context. At the time, about a decade ago, I was getting my first bachelor’s degree and working at the...
Configuration Management
Version Control
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The first weeks of Javascript
01 Sep 2016
In the first weeks of my course on Software Engineering, I’ve also been exposed to Javascript for the first time. Using the athletic software engineering model, we have started on a fast, but above-all consistent, pace. Learning in this way...
Software Engineering
Learning
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