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Inflict bad UX on users you secretly hate

About a year ago at a conference, a programmer came up to me for some advice about an unfortunate user interface he’d built. It was a pretty miserable affair: a combination of displaying too much information and offering too many choices, while at the same time burying the one thing that the user actually wanted [...]

Q&A: How to succeed in business analysis without really trying

Hi everyone! We’re back from a summer break — no, not to go off to some vacation paradise. We were crunching away on our next big O’Reilly release, Head First C#. We’ll post more about it as we get closer to publication which, according to its Amazon page, is due out in just a couple [...]

The Kitchen of the Future

What is it with futuristic kitchens? I swear I’ve seen the same TV segment about the “kitchen of the future” repeated on different channels with different people at least twice a year for the last decade or so. This wired article seems to have a good description of the generic kitchen of the future: Kitchen [...]