Usable Software Design

There is a user for your software design. That user is the developer.

So how about applying the UX mindset and practices to improving the developer experience? And how about deriving new practices, based on the UX mindset?

Alex has researched this topic with a small group of interested professionals, and has experimented with a few UX practices in small product teams. The results were promising, and his hope is that more people will take these ideas, experiment with them, and share the results.

For this purpose, in this session Alex shows how to apply techniques from UX to software design in order to improve at the same time the experience of developers, the end product, and the effectiveness of teams. For example: run usability studies of your software design, map the user flow for common tasks and optimize them, improve navigability of your code etc.

Alex is a polyglot programmer, trainer and coach at Mozaic Works. He has worked for almost 20 years in software development, for various industries and in various European countries and the UK.

He has been involved in large projects in many industries, including banking, energy, telecommunications, media planning, printing, pharma, eHealth. From practical experience, he also advises and teaches on topics such as architecting microservices,  agile architecture, usable software design, evolutionary design, crafting code, clean code and refactoring legacy code with focus on design.

Alex co-facilitated the first code retreat outside the US in Bucharest in 2009. Since then, he’s facilitated tens of events such as coding dojos, architectural katas, code retreats and others in many countries from Europe.

He is also a contributor to youtube channels, publications and blogs such as: Think Design Work Smart, Today Software Magazine, Agile Record Magazine, Mozaic Works Blog and his own blog.

He is the author of  "Usable Software Design", a book about using UX mindset and practices to improve the experience of developers, given that they are the users of software design.