All Writing

2022-09-08

What a coach can teach a teacher can teach us (Gallimore & Tharp, 2004)

Summary and key facts from the psychology paper 'What a Coach Can Teach a Teacher, 1975-2004: Reflections and Reanalysis of John Wooden's Teaching Practices'
2022-09-07

What volleyball serves can tell us about becoming an expert (Kitsantas & Zimmerman, 2002)

Summary and key facts from the research paper 'Comparing Self-Regulatory Processes Among Novice, Non-Expert, and Expert Volleyball Players: A Microanalytic Study'
2022-08-10

Beware designer/user preference differences (Bonnardel, Piolat & Le Bigot, 2010)

Summary and key points of the design research paper 'The impact of colour on Website appeal and users' cognitive processes'
2022-08-09

How much time do people spend looking at masterpieces of art? (Smith & Smith, 2001)

My takeaways and learnings from the research paper 'Spending Time on Art'. Discusses how long people stop to look at art in museums and implications
2022-08-06

My 30 year old microwave has near perfect UX

Why old microwave interfaces excel from a user experience standpoint. Advantages of physical interfaces. Complexity and emotional design.
2022-04-24

When Automating User Interaction, Think Processes, Think Muscle Memory

Ideas and best practices on how to organize side projects and personal files, and how that connects to UX principles
2022-02-09

Mental Models For Queues In User Interfaces

Lessons from Spotify, YouTube, and my projects — Deep-dive on how the mental model of queues works from a UX perspective
2021-11-25

Lessons Learned From Building My Own Note Taking System

Chaoskasten — The story on how I wrote a system for note taking and organization, and what I learned
2021-08-27

Building a Carousel in Jekyll without JS

Tutorial on how to build a card carousel without javascript with the static blog generator Jekyll