Presentations

• Posted by Anne Halsall  on  May 24, 2013
  Quora on Mobile: A Product-Centered Approach to Multi-Platform Deployment

  Anne Halsall reviews the nearly two-year process of designing, developing, and releasing the official mobile apps for Quora, sharing lessons and advice for creating apps across multiple platforms.

  Anne Halsall

  on  May 24, 2013

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• Posted by Barbara Liskov  on  May 03, 2013
  Keynote: The Power of Abstraction

  Abstraction is at the center of much work in Computer Science. It encompasses finding the right interface for a system as well as finding an effective design for a system implementation.

  Barbara Liskov

  on  May 03, 2013

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• Posted by Sandro Mancuso  on  May 02, 2013
  Testing and Refactoring Legacy Code

  Sandro Mancuso runs a hands-on demo adding tests to a Java legacy code then refactoring it.

  Sandro Mancuso

  on  May 02, 2013

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• Posted by Stuart Sierra  on  Apr 03, 2013
  Functional Design Patterns

  Stuart Sierra discusses several design patterns implemented in functional languages, in particular Clojure: State/Event, Consequences, Accumulator, MapReduce, Reduce/Combine, Recursive Expansion, etc.

  Stuart Sierra

  on  Apr 03, 2013

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• Posted by Stuart Church  on  Mar 27, 2013
  From Darwin to Design

  Stuart Church discusses applying the theories of species evolution, especially evolutionary and behavioral ecology, to software design.

  Stuart Church

  on  Mar 27, 2013

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• Posted by Adrian Howard  on  Mar 21, 2013
  User Experience Does Not Exist

  Adrian Howard ponders on the future of UX, wondering if it will survive and if UX should be done by dedicated professionals or every developer should take the UX designer role.

  Adrian Howard

  on  Mar 21, 2013

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• Posted by Jan Srutek  on  Mar 13, 2013
  Small Cognitive Psychology for Big Interaction Design

  Jan Srutek explores ways to apply what we know about how the mind works from cognitive psychology in daily UX and user interface design.

  Jan Srutek

  on  Mar 13, 2013

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• Posted by Annette Priest  on  Mar 05, 2013
  Sage UX - How Anthropology Can Improve Your UX Practice

  Annette Priest discusses applying anthropology to UX practice, and shares tips for getting the answers you need, research ethics and lessons learned from working with different teams and cultures.

  Annette Priest

  on  Mar 05, 2013

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• Posted by Sophie Freiermuth  on  Mar 01, 2013
  When All Is Going Wrong, the UX Practitioner Can Still Save the Project (to some extent)

  Sophie Freiermuth shares insight and directions for UX practitioners to make use of their skills in dealing with all sorts of problems that might impact a project.

  Sophie Freiermuth

  on  Mar 01, 2013

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• Posted by Michael Feathers  on  Feb 18, 2013
  A Type Driven Approach to Functional Design

  Michael Feathers describes an approach toward planning the design of the functional portions of an application by using a variation of Haskell type expression syntax.

  Michael Feathers

  on  Feb 18, 2013

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• Posted by Jesse Wilson  on  Feb 07, 2013
  Dagger: A Fast Dependency Injector for Android and Java

  Jesse Wilson introduces Dagger, a dependency injection framework for Java, covering the motivation behind its creation, examples on how to use it and some of the internal details.

  Jesse Wilson

  on  Feb 07, 2013

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• Posted by Lane Halley  on  Jan 29, 2013
  User Experience - More Than Just a Pretty Stick

  Lane Halley advises on building and organizing a User Experience process based on the Lean Startup cycle.

  Lane Halley

  on  Jan 29, 2013

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