Bringing UX to Your Code Joe Mastey @jmmastey

@jmmastey Joe Mastey @jmmastey josephmastey.com chicagoapprenticeships.com

@jmmastey I help companies build awesome internal education programs

@jmmastey I’ve worked in software for a million years.

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@jmmastey I am not a UX designer / developer

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@jmmastey “Norman discussed door handles at length.” - Wikipedia

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@jmmastey Things We Ignore:

@jmmastey Things We Ignore: 1. Anything invented a long time ago

@jmmastey Things We Ignore: 1. Anything invented a long time ago 2. Anything invented by non-engineers

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@jmmastey < decades of research shit I made up

@jmmastey We’re missing out

@jmmastey Our code is an interface

@jmmastey Our users are stressed

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@jmmastey Let’s try it!

@jmmastey Gulf of Execution

@jmmastey Is there an action that corresponds to my intentions?

@jmmastey An example: deleting an ActiveRecord object

@jmmastey macguffin.methods.sort

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@jmmastey macguffin.methods.grep /…?/

@jmmastey The model in my head is what I use to search.

HTTP Verb: DELETE SQL Statement: DELETE FROM * Arrays: delete, delete_at, delete_if Every OS Ever: DELETE

@jmmastey macguffin.methods.grep /delete/ => [:delete]

@jmmastey macguffin.destroy

@jmmastey It’s completely unnecessary friction

@jmmastey Gulf of Evaluation

@jmmastey Did it work?

@jmmastey This is easy(ish) in code

@jmmastey macguffin.delete => #

@jmmastey macguffin.destroy => #

@jmmastey class MacGuffin private def self.retrieve … end end

@jmmastey Natural Mappings

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@jmmastey What does that look like in code?

@jmmastey my_stuff.sort

@jmmastey my_stuff.first

@jmmastey my_stuff.delete :foo

@jmmastey brew update brew upgrade

@jmmastey path realpath absolute_path dir_path realdirpath

@jmmastey Design for Errors

@jmmastey Software is screwed up most of the time

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@jmmastey undefined is not a function

@jmmastey “also, screw you”

@jmmastey Spooky Nulls at a Distance

@jmmastey Exploit the Power of Constraint

@jmmastey Make it hard to do it the wrong way

@jmmastey mysql --i-am-a-dummy

@jmmastey irb(main):042:0>

@jmmastey irb(main):042:0> User.last.destroy =>

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@jmmastey “So You Wanna Be a User Experience Designer”

@jmmastey 4. Group Related Objects

@jmmastey Proximity implies relationship

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@jmmastey what about methods in a class?

@jmmastey what about similarly named classes / methods?

@jmmastey macguffin.accounts_add macguffin.accounts_delete macguffin.accounts_list

@jmmastey 18. Be Consistent

@jmmastey I’m not saying your code isn’t a beautiful and unique snowflake

@jmmastey rails dbconsole production rails console production rails server -e production

@jmmastey def update @macguffin = MacGuffin.find(params[:id]) … end def show_macguffin m = MacGuffin.find(params[:macguffin_id]) … end

@jmmastey “gulp”.upcase => “GULP”

@jmmastey “gulp”.upcase => “GULP” “GULP”.upcase => “GULP”

@jmmastey “gulp”.upcase => “GULP” “GULP”.upcase => “GULP” “gulp”.upcase! => “GULP”

@jmmastey “gulp”.upcase => “GULP” “GULP”.upcase => “GULP” “gulp”.upcase! => “GULP” “GULP”.upcase! =>

@jmmastey “gulp”.upcase => “GULP” “GULP”.upcase => “GULP” “gulp”.upcase! => “GULP” “GULP”.upcase! => nil?!

@jmmastey params[:product_code].upcase!

@jmmastey params = { product_code: “foO” } # do work expect(macguffin.upc).to eq(“FOO”)

@jmmastey Consistent with what?

@jmmastey 16. Use Emotion

@jmmastey We have an emotional relationship with the software we use

@jmmastey A demonstration

@jmmastey Rails

@jmmastey Elm

@jmmastey SOAP

@jmmastey See?

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@jmmastey This isn’t about kitsch

@jmmastey Warmth and kindness make software a pleasure to use

@jmmastey 9. Avoid Jargon

@jmmastey stop_csrfs versus protect_from_forgery

@jmmastey AJAX

@jmmastey def __private_method

@jmmastey 7. Provide Signposts and Cues

@jmmastey Where you came from, where you’re going

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@jmmastey RTFM? STFU.

@jmmastey User.find_by_email_and_first_name

@jmmastey User.find_by(email: ‘’, first_name: ‘’)

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@jmmastey 㽩 /export/nonce (master) > rspec bomb_spec.rb Failures: 1) MyObject works at all Failure/Error: expect(1).to eq(0) expected: 0 got: 1 … stacktrace … Finished in 0.00375 seconds (files took 0.29196 seconds to load) 1 example, 1 failure Failed examples: rspec ./bomb_spec.rb:4 # MyObject works at all

@jmmastey 㽩 /export/nonce (master) > rspec bomb_spec.rb Failures: 1) MyObject works at all Failure/Error: expect(1).to eq(0) expected: 0 got: 1 … stacktrace … Finished in 0.00375 seconds (files took 0.29196 seconds to load) 1 example, 1 failure Failed examples: rspec ./bomb_spec.rb:4 # MyObject works at all

@jmmastey 㽩 /export/nonce (master) > rspec bomb_spec.rb Failures: 1) MyObject works at all Failure/Error: expect(1).to eq(0) expected: 0 got: 1 … stacktrace … Finished in 0.00375 seconds (files took 0.29196 seconds to load) 1 example, 1 failure Failed examples: rspec ./bomb_spec.rb:4 # MyObject works at all

@jmmastey rspec ./bomb_spec.rb:4 # MyObject works at all

@jmmastey @macguffin = MacGuffin.find(1)

@jmmastey So what’s the point?

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@jmmastey “The world is filled with plenty of anguish — make your life goal not to add to it.”

@jmmastey This is the mechanism for self documenting code

@jmmastey The part where I ask you for things

@jmmastey “So you wanna be a user experience designer” - Whitney Hess (http://bit.ly/1Hn1nQS) “The Design of Everyday Things” - Don Norman (I dunno, Amazon?)

@jmmastey Thanks! Frustration Photo by jseliger2 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/91262622@N02/) Happy Kids by deepblue66 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/deepblue66/14503838952) Annotated code by Avdi Grimm (https://avdi.org) All icons from the NounProject (https://nounproject.com)