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August 18, 2026 Musings

Performative UX: Coding at the Circus in 2026

I am currently coding a small language model (SLM) – basically I am coding some AI to chat to me and use it to demonstrate how AI works – and it should feel fantastic, or it would if all the IDEs were so unnecessarily complicated. UX has ruined coding.

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February 17, 2020 Musings

The heart of computer programming

Years ago I was in a restaurant with my husband and we got into a discussion about object-oriented design for

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October 26, 2007 Design / Technical

Why task analysis doesn’t do it for me

Like every self-respecting human-computer interaction (HCI) lecturer, I introduce task analysis or the technique of analysing how people perform a

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