Steeple Ashton http://www.steepleashton.com Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:39:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Usability on Rails: Presentation at MountainWest RubyConf 2009 http://www.steepleashton.com/usability-on-rails-presentation-at-mountainwest-rubyconf-2009/ http://www.steepleashton.com/usability-on-rails-presentation-at-mountainwest-rubyconf-2009/#comments Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:41:10 +0000 adamdunford http://www.steepleashton.com/?p=214

“The only ‘intuitive’ interface is the nipple. After that it’s all learned.”

—attributed to Bruce Ediger

This past weekend, I shared some basic principles of usability at the 2009 MountainWest RubyConf in Salt Lake City. As this is a developer-focused conference, I team-presented with Rails developer extraordinaire Jason Edwards who then progressively added usability improvements to some sample Rails code. You can check it out here: Because we had only 30 minutes to present, we presented the highest level concepts pretty quickly. I’ll try to go into more detail in subsequent posts.]]> http://www.steepleashton.com/usability-on-rails-presentation-at-mountainwest-rubyconf-2009/feed/ 0