Author: David Rutten
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Discoverability
Graphic Interface design —or User Experience (UX) design as it is nowadays called— is not a science. And when you see 99% of all the interfaces out there you’d be…
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Limbo
Having been scolded earlier by visose for even daring to touch my Xbox rather than type code, I decided to put some oil on the flames. Most of the games…
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Header Images
Decided to put up some header images today to make the blog a bit more human and a bit less programmer. These are photos I took in the summer of…
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An open letter to Steven Spielberg
Dear Mr. Spielberg, most of what they tried to teach me during gymnasium Latin classes has long since evaporated from my memory. I no longer remember how to conjugate verbs…
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Trials and Tribulations of Boring Interfaces
I’m often struck by how even the most straightforward and standard interfaces are cumbersome to get right. I know, I know, I’m the first to admit I don’t get stuff…
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Book Reviews
In case anyone is looking for a book to read, allow me to review some of the books I recently finished.
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Programming, conflicting perspectives
Different people have different ideas on what constitutes programming. The Assembly coder will scoff at the C coder for using high level function calls, the C coder will belittle the…
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Battlefield 3
A while ago I purchased Red Dead Redemption by RockStar, mostly because of a YouTube video by TheCheese00. It wasn’t a particularly cheap buy, as I also had to get…
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An alternative to New Year’s Resolutions
Instead of a bunch of New Year’s Resolutions I thought I’d mention four of my childhood mistakes. Without further ado: Ascension. I used to think that Ascension was to celebrate…
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Multiple Local Optima
In this post I’ll present one of the examples I used in my lecture at the Design Modelling Symposium in Berlin in October/2011. This particular example shows how the Simulated…
Bugs for breakfast 