Geoff Perlman

Geoff Perlman

CODE Author

Geoff Perlman is an entrepreneur and author, specializing in cross-platform software development. He is the founder and CEO of Real Software, which makes Real Studio, a cross-platform software development tool that makes native applications for the Web and desktop. Perlman has written many articles for publications including Dr. Dobbs Journal, VentureBeat, and the SD Times.

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  • Five Ways to Advance Your User Interface

    Last updated: Thursday, June 2, 2022

    Published in: CODE Magazine: 2013 - May/June

    Software applications have a lifespan. Some, like utility applications that do nothing more than patch an existing application to fix a bug, are quite short. Others, like games, live only slightly longer. Then there are those applications that live on for decades, such as Microsoft Word and Adobe Photoshop. Internal business applications that are used to automate and track processes often have long lifespans as well. As developers, we add to or adjust the application’s user interface to account for new features, but rarely do we reconsider the interface as a whole. Why? Likely because we get used to the original user interface we created and don’t see any reason to change it. But complacency is generally not viewed as a virtue.