Authors:
Claude Knaus
Interaction design is used to create useful, usable, and desirable software products for its users. However, there are groups of people who interact daily with software products but do not benefit from interaction design: software developers. These are the people that build our software, yet the tools they use are woefully inadequate. Software development suffers from longitudinal usability issues. Software development tools (commonly known as IDEs, or integrated development environments) ask developers to continuously make small and seemingly unimportant decisions, which have subtle, long-term, and often large consequences. Without paying attention to "good software design," maturing software becomes increasingly…
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