Posts tagged 'usability'

The Secret Joys of Hiding Complexity

I reckon some of the best times working as a software designer and programmer are when you manage to make something really quite hideously complex look absolutely trivial to the end user. In this case, some fairly hairy fuzzy-searching, de-duplicating and difference-spotting code for the Help Training Courses Magical Auto Search, running behind a user [...]

Category: web development

Search that (nearly) passes the Turing test

After spending a fair bit of time over the past few months developing a search facility that was a bit more ‘human’ in its responses than a simple text-based search would be, I was interested to stumble on this discussion on Applying Turing’s Ideas to Search by John Ferrara. In my case, by working in [...]

Category: web development