Archive for ‘July, 2009

Don’t Make Me Think

by Oliver

Years back, I got the first edition of the book Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug. The book is about making websites usable… if your website (…your software) is easy to use, you will get more users. Since we wanted more users with ZOOMS, we designed the web-interface to PI with nuggets of wisdom [...] Read more »

Web-enabling databases

by Oliver

A topic tangential to ZOOMS is the Web-Enabling of Databases. The relational database world is dominated by text… getting into the database and digging the information out was/still is a major challenge. In fact, this year (2009), there are still people logging into a system to copy-paste the data into Excel spreadsheets for further processing. [...] Read more »