Archive for December, 2007

Making a groovy module for OpenMRS

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

No, I’m not smoking anything and I’m not trying to do a Greg Brady impersonation. By “groovy” module…I mean a Groovy module.
Groovy has the potential to bring the fun and rapid prototyping benefits of languages like Ruby to the Java scene. But a big advantage of Groovy is that it’s built [...]

The 5 B’s of user interface design

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

I’m sitting in Nairobi at the WHO Standards Meeting listening to Mike McCay presenting about user interface design. He introduced the five B’s (which he attributed to Christian Allen). Users are attracted to parts of a user interface in this order:

Bikinis — people are attracted to images, so make sure that images [...]