Designing a logo for your software project

I research use of instructions in my PhD – so, if you used this guide, I would be happy to hear how you used it!  Read it begin-to-end? Tried the most interesting parts? Just reading first and then in practice? Followed it with your own logo design? Drop me a line …

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Collaboration without shared professional culture

“If only they would know what we know!…”

Developers should learn how to design user interfaces and everyone should learn how to code: The cry for a better education of others in ones own field is frequent: If they only knew what we know, the world would be better and …

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Statements of disappointment in product communities

There is an interesting type of feedback, which you can often find when people tell on the web that they are disappointed in a product they are invested in.

“I waited 10 years for this release and I had high hopes. But after trying it, I was shocked by the …

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Most common problems that make documents look bad

I sometimes review slides and text documents for others. There are some areas where some simple changes can improve the look and feel a lot.

Check for consistent use of fonts

When you copy and paste text you easily end up with different fonts in the same documents. Often they …

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Logo Competitions in Open Source Software Projects

I always wondered why open source projects love community-driven logo competitions (almost all logos of Wikimedia projects seem to have been created this way). What happens is this: A person or a group makes the case the the project needs a logo or needs an improved logo. If they are …

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Control and instructions

I research how people learn new skills using instructions. As fields, I selected working with people who learn programming and people who (re) learn cooking (some of them do so as they got a diagnosed with a condition that demands a new diet). Both fields work with very different materials …

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