Matt Lacey - Software Developer

 I quite often use the phrase "I'm not smart enough to use this" when working with software tools. This is actually a code for...

Recently, I saw a display inside a cinema that said a film was starting in "1 hour and 60 minutes" Be careful how you round times ...

Here's some simple code. There are probably many ways you can see that it could be different, but there's one major potential proble...

You've probably seen options like the one above used throughout the software you use. It might be clickable text like that shown above o...

The above is from the receipt when visiting a supermarket earlier in the year. Yes, it's an entry for 88.297 KiloGrams of loose fru...

You have a list, grid, or some other collection in your software (app/website/other). Someone clicks, taps, or otherwise selects one of the ...

I have a tool to help test the localization of strings in an app . It does this by making changes to the resource files (.resx & .resw) ...

In my book ( Usability Matters ), I cover details about identifying reasons for building apps and planning app development. Before th...

Books are great. Of course, you should read mine . When you've read that, I recommend the following books to all software developers, e...

As I put my card in the ATM machine today I noticed a message on the screen that said Receipts currently unavailable I've seen it man...

Getting older is hard enough, don't make it unnecessarily, arbitrarily, harder by changing your apps UI.

Reposted here although originally posted on medium Shh. Here’s a secret. I think there’s a part of me that wants to be a hipster. It must...

Last month I wrote a guest post on the UK Microsoft developers blog: Have you ever thought (or heard another developer say) something a...

There has been a lot of discussion about some of the native apps in the Windows 10 technical preview releases using a hidden menu, acces...

Cross-posted from  http://windowsapps.london/2014/10/13/book-review-designing-mobile-payment-experiences-skip-allums/ Back in the late nin...

What your design should be responding to is the context of the user. Not just the device they're using. It's about more than ju...

There is a convention on Windows Phone to not wrap text but let it overflow the right edge of the screen. This shouldn't always be do...

Just thinking out loud here... We use the term "phone" to refer to many more devices than we did a few years ago. When refe...

This is a break from my usual, more technical posts, indulge me for a moment. So, I was looking at Etsy on one of my Android tablets as I...