We have found that trying to have any particular visualization that serves lots of needs is rarely successful, and a better strategy is to try to understand and then more directly answer the specific questions that developers have. We discuss this observation and various HCI methods we apply to improve usability for developers in our new paper to appear soon: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~NatProg/papers/HCI%20in%20Tools%20Lifecycle%20-%20IEEE%20Comp%20PrePrint.pdf
If you are interested in this topic and will be at the CHI conference in 2 weeks, please come to our SIG: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~NatProg/programminglanguageusability/ Brad A. Myers Professor Human-Computer Interaction Institute School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3891 (412) 268-5150 FAX: (412) 268-1266 b...@cs.cmu.edu http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bam From: ppig-discuss@googlegroups.com [mailto:ppig-discuss@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Raoul Duke Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2016 11:28 AM To: erlang-questi...@erlang.org; PPIG Discuss <ppig-discuss@googlegroups.com> Subject: [ppig-discuss] Re: [erlang-questions] Rhetorical structure of code: Anyone interested in collaborating? Right on. Code often becomes so complicated that we really need multiple ways to tackle, visualize, sort, query, etc. it. The fact that we have such a paucity of tools and toolkits/frameworks for the tooling is I feel a long standing indictment of the whole industry. I guess most people don't grok UX, and there seems to be sometimes an extra special antipathy or cluelessness or something in the software engineering world about it, in many regards. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PPIG Discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ppig-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<mailto:ppig-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. To post to this group, send email to ppig-discuss@googlegroups.com<mailto:ppig-discuss@googlegroups.com>. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PPIG Discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ppig-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to ppig-discuss@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.