Category Archives: Reading

Recommended Reading: How to Think About Writing

Posted on July 27, 2014 by

Oliver Burkeman reviews the basics of thinking about writing.

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Recommended Reading: Tools of the Trade

Posted on July 20, 2014 by

Tools of the trade, 2014. Everything from bug tracking to HR.

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Testing Information Architectures

Posted on July 6, 2014 by

Usability testing for your information architecture – before you code.

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Recommended Reading: Code Injections Where you Least Expect Them

Posted on June 11, 2014 by

If you’re testing HTML5 mobile apps, you might want to read about code injections through the bar-code scanner, videos, Bluetooth and more.

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Recommended Reading: how the Other Side Feels

Posted on April 30, 2014 by

Programming: we didn’t start out crazy, we’re being driven crazy.

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Recommended Reading: Pay Attention Before it Gets Complicated

Posted on April 20, 2014 by

Designing something? “Simplicity doesn’t happen accidentally. It needs to be actively cultivated. Complexity is what happens when you aren’t paying attention”. 

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Recommended Reading: Colours and Buttons

Posted on March 31, 2014 by

The User Experience Stack Exchange has a nice discussion about confirmation buttons and colours, with lots of good points about clear communication in UI.

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Recommended Reading: Seven Unbreakable Laws of User Interface Design

Posted on March 15, 2014 by

Testing your product? Remember the UI.

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Recommended Reading: Agile Is Dead (Long Live Agility)

Posted on March 12, 2014 by

PragDave on why Agile (as a noun) is dead, and how agility can replace it.

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Recommended Reading: Test Automation Lessons, Learned the Hard Way

Posted on March 6, 2014 by

At Infinite Undo, eleven test automation lessons learned the hard way. And at Adactio, on why your website doesn’t have to look the same on every browser.

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