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Norman's Design Principles - Design Stories 3

Norman's Design Principles - Design Stories 3

The designer has his or her conceptual model and the trick is to be mindful of that and make sure that this translates well in how the user conceptualises this.

Designing for memory - Design Stories 2

Designing for memory - Design Stories 2

Human attention and memory capabilities have guided interface design throughout the years so let's have a look at interesting theories about this.

Human perception and how it influences design - Design Stories 1

Human perception and how it influences design - Design Stories 1

In this article, we're going to take a dive into learning about different human capabilities when it comes to the perception and how it influences the designs we are creating

Design Stories Series - Part 0

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Design Stories Series - Part 0

I'm getting to the end of my classes at University and I was thinking of writing ~16 design stories, every 2 weeks from now, based on the knowledge I acquired in 1.5+ years of studying Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).

The Chartbrew journey 👟

The Chartbrew journey 👟

It's due time I start typing away about Chartbrew, a side project that I worked the longest so far. It all started in the summer of 2018...

Hummi.nz - Month one report

Hummi.nz - Month one report

This whole journey of me launching an app started with a one week challenge to develop and release an app in a week. The app is called Hummi.nz, where people can hum songs for others to guess.

Woke up in the morning to find that my app reached top #10 on Hacker News

Woke up in the morning to find that my app reached top #10 on Hacker News

It was close to 10pm in Edinburgh, UK, I was resting in my bed typing away on my laptop. Just a few days before I launched my first app called Hummi.nz that I developed for myself as part of a personal challenge.

Challenged myself to build and launch an app in a week

Challenged myself to build and launch an app in a week

One app, one week, no procrastination, no perfectionism, just launch something and see how it goes. Don’t go into the developer mindset of regurgitating features that maybe people will not even want. Just the essential, and get to work, fast.

Using Sequelize with sqlite3 inside an Electron app

Using Sequelize with sqlite3 inside an Electron app

A few months ago I ran into some problems when I tried to use Sequelize with sqlite3 inside an Electron app. This post will walk you through fixing this issue.

Productivity - Waking up early in the morning

Productivity - Waking up early in the morning

A lot of people recommend waking up in the morning because it gives your day a boost. Well, I actually started doing this for the past 3 weeks and I will describe my experience about it.

ofxAwesomiumPlus

ofxAwesomiumPlus

ofxAwesomiumPlus is an addon for openFrameworks. It works as an interface between Awesomium and openFrameworks.

Nebulae - First game with Unity

Nebulae - First game with Unity

Nebulae is a multiplayer space shooter game that I developed for educational purposes. I always wanted to learn how to develop using the Unity3D engine, and creating an actual game from scratch was the best way to do it.

Having fun with the Unity game engine

Having fun with the Unity game engine

Unity is a really cool game engine which I wanted to learn a while ago, but had no time to do that. Less than two weeks ago I decided to go back to it and I started doing a project tutorial that I found on unity's learning space