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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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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Creating a Research Question for Qualitative User Research

In most experimental quantitative research, it is essential to have a research question, or rather: an hypothesis. However, in qualitative research, a research question can be useful, too as it helps to communicate to others what you are doing and it can help to guide your research. In contrast to …

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Learning from Books: Graphic Design

I thought it would be interesting to review what I tried to learn from books in the past. Learning is probably the easiest if you can learn it from a mentor by direct participation. Nevertheless, we put a lot of stuff in books and have people (like me) learn from …

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