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programming, usability, and interaction design
last modified on Wednesday, 21 April 2010 6:05PM

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  • Browser Bits: My mini-blog on browser UX, published on Wednesday, 21 April 2010 6:05PM
    I mentioned it off-hand in a previous post, but thought I should mention it again: If you’re interested in web browser user experience, take a look at Browser Bits, my little tumblelog/mini-blog thingy all about browser UX.
    http://dubroy.com/blog/?p=465
  • My CHI2010 talk: A Study of Tabbed Browsing, published on Tuesday, 20 April 2010 6:55PM
    Last week, I went to Atlanta for CHI 2010 to present my paper A Study of Tabbed Browsing Among Mozilla Firefox Users. For those who couldn’t be there, or just don’t feel like reading a 10-page academic paper, here’s a transcript-by-memory of the talk. If you want a Cole’s Notes version, just check out the summary. I [...]
    http://dubroy.com/blog/?p=444
  • Presenting at CHI 2010, published on Friday, 09 April 2010 3:10AM
    If you’re going to CHI 2010 in Atlanta next week, you should come check out my talk on Tuesday morning at 9. I’ll be presenting a paper on the tabbed browsing study I did last year. Hope to see you there! If anyone wants to meet up, send me an email (pat at [my last [...]
    http://dubroy.com/blog/?p=440
  • An In-Depth Look at the User Experience of iPhone Safari, published on Friday, 29 January 2010 6:19AM
    On stage Wednesday at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco, Steve Jobs introduced the iPad as “the best browsing experience you’ve ever had. Way better than a laptop, way better than a smart phone.” Quite a claim. Of course, the iPad browser is Safari. And from what I’ve seen and heard, it’s more like the [...]
    http://dubroy.com/blog/?p=358
  • Thesis Update and Multi-Touch BumpTop, published on Thursday, 01 October 2009 5:58PM
    It’s been a while since I posted a real update here — it’s about time I filled you all in on what I’ve been up to. Academia In April, I finished my master’s in Compter Science (Human-Computer Interaction) at the University of Toronto. My thesis was a study of how people use tabs in during web browsing, [...]
    http://dubroy.com/blog/?p=280
  • Aaand…we’re back., published on Monday, 20 July 2009 3:09AM
    If you visited this site in the last day or so, you probably saw a 404. Sorry about that. I had to bring the site down for a bit to upgrade my woefully out-of-date WordPress installation. A few weeks ago, someone actually took advantage of the ancient version of WordPress I had, and filled up [...]
    http://dubroy.com/blog/?p=276
  • How many tabs do people use? (Now with real data!), published on Monday, 13 April 2009 4:15PM
    For the past few months, I’ve been knee-deep in data from the tabbed browsing study that I conducted late last year. Now that I’m finishing up my thesis, I figured it’s about time that I share some of my findings. In this post, I’ll talk about one of the quantitative questions I was trying to [...]
    http://dubroy.com/blog/2009/04/13/how-many-tabs-do-people-use-now-with-real-data/
  • 301 Redirect for the search usability win!, published on Friday, 20 March 2009 10:31PM
    This morning I read an article about CloudKick, a new Y Combinator startup that provides a nice interface for managing cloud computing resources on Amazon EC2 and Slicehost. It turned out to be a good lesson in how paying attention to basic search engine optimization (SEO) techniques can also give you usability benefits. After reading the [...]
    http://dubroy.com/blog/2009/03/20/301-redirect-for-the-search-usability-win/
  • Hire me for programming or interaction work, published on Wednesday, 11 March 2009 12:42AM
    In the next month or two, I’ll be finishing up my master’s degree. After that, I’m looking for full-time, part-time, or contract work doing programming and/or interaction design. What I can do Whenever possible, I like to code in Python. It’s been my language of choice for more than 6 years. Lately I’ve also been writing lots [...]
    http://dubroy.com/blog/2009/03/10/hire-me-for-programming-or-interaction-work/
  • Are short methods actually worse?, published on Monday, 09 March 2009 9:12PM
    I ran across an interesting post on programming.reddit called Anecdote Driven Development, or Why I Don't Do TDD. The article focused on testing, but what I found most interesting was the part about how long a method or function should be. I've believed for a long time that shorter methods AREN'T better, but here is some actual, empirical evidence to justify that claim.
    http://dubroy.com/blog/2009/03/09/method-length-are-short-methods-actually-worse/

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