False premises can lead to false conclusions — A story about a machine becoming sentient that was recently published on Medium quickly went viral. Is not this a fascinating subject? Actually, it was not for me. It struck a depressing chord with me, and my mood is not easily brought down. Things got more interesting when I started…

Designing for the user — Welcome to the fourth episode of ASL. …

Achieving synthesis via custom graphical notations — There are many excellent diagramming applications available, some of which are even free. So why did I devote my time to creating my own? I enjoy coding I enjoy a good challenge, but my real motivation was to have control over a feature that meant a lot to me…

Single-Document-Interface vs. Multi-Document-Interface — Each application on the market began with an idea. The initial concept may then have been obscured by a large volume of formal requirements, or divided into a set of user stories, or encrypted by the wishes of the stakeholders. Whatever method is used to articulate the need for the…

The one thing that allows complex systems to exist — In this second ASL digression, I will introduce what I believe to be the most important concept of the software production process and, more broadly, of any human activity that results in the realization of complex designs. It is the concept of abstraction layer. Every technological marvel that we…

Introducing ArtisticGUI — How many times did you have to compromise on your original UX design? How frequently were those compromises required due to the limitations of the underlying technology? What if that technology could have been replaced with something more capable of supporting your ideas and concepts? I used the term technology…

First digression of Antonio’s Software Lounge (ASL) — This is the first ASL digression, and it comes as a surprise to me as well as to you as I write it. The next ASL episode, which was announced in the introduction to this publication, will be published as planned very soon, but before that, I realized that…