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Oct 15, 2011 • This should be filed under “general problem solving,” but I’m putting it in the usability category because it deals with a workflow issue. When I managed student employees, one of the biggest problems I had was getting them successfully enrolled in direct deposit. Now, being that we had a separate payroll department that handled all...
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Jun 22, 2011 • In an effort to make my scheduler program a bit more usable (in its present form, it’s anything but — command line only, lots of restrictions on input file types), I decided to design a graphical interface for it. This is the final result. As I worked on it, I had the current student employee...
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Jun 21, 2011 • Amongst my weaponry are such diverse elements as fear, surprise, and social network analysis. Applied properly, SNA is a great technique for gathering user data for later use in user-centered design. It can allow you to understand what your user segments are, how they’re connected, and, if you make some unfounded-but-logical assumptions, what their goals...
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Jun 21, 2011 • I’m not primarily a programmer, but I can code (and when I get into The Zone, I love it). At one of my previous jobs, I needed a program to produce a schedule for about 170 employees based on their availability and how many desks we needed filled on any given shift. By hand, this...
