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