alexbolboaca.ro Reflections on design, craft and software

ArchiveOctober 2019

Video: Out of the box ideas to improve software development

By Alexandru Bolboaca
In Opinions
1 Min read
V

I gave this talk at SC London 2018. It’s one of my favourite talks to date, focused on exploring a few different, out of the box approaches to understand and improve software development. I tried to draw parallels between code and programming on one side, and material physics, design, or engineering on the other side. You need to be aware that this is an exploratory talk, and therefore...

Read onRead later

Why I Write Books

By Alexandru Bolboaca
In Writing & Publishing
4 Min read
W

I got this question repeatedly since my last article on the topic. Readers asked me how much I make from a book, and what are my benefits for writing books. I wrote before about why I published my first book, “Usable Software Design”. It was simply because I wanted to publish a book, and because I believed that the ideas related to usable software design deserve to be heard. I wanted...

Read onRead later
alexbolboaca.ro Reflections on design, craft and software

A new home for merging ideas about design

It is my strong belief that software design can learn a lot from other design disciplines. I wrote blog posts, a book and did talks on this topic, and it was time to group them all together. These ideas have now a new home: https://codedesigner.eu. My plan is to add more blog posts there, and to involve other people doing work in this area.