Ken & Mike on the MATLAB Desktop

June 30th, 2008

Next time you’re in the Boston Area

Don’t take this too personally, but I love our users. You guys work on interesting applications in every imaginable industry. By virtue of hearing what someone is doing with our products, I get to engineer vicariously on more projects than I might otherwise. Which is why I love meeting and talking to users.

As an engineer in the Boston area, I often meet a lot of scientists, engineers, or otherwise technical people. And everyone seems to have an opinion (good or bad) about MATLAB. That is a pretty awesome thing: lots of smart people with opinions that care about MATLAB.

By giving us the opportunity to learn how you use MATLAB, you help us better understand your workflows and any pains you may have using the product. This is called usability, and we enjoy having the opportunity to test, measure, and improve MATLAB. Oh, and it just so happens that we offer a nice stipend for such people to come down to our studios for an hour or two and try out the new stuff we’re working on. But the bigger reward for those who help us through testing is a better, more useful product - we apply your feedback to make MATLAB better.

If you’re interested in being part of a usability test, or would like to find more information about our user-centered design process, checkout this web page.

Hope to see you around!

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By Michael Katz

Mike is a developer on the MATLAB Desktop team. When not describing himself in the third person, biking, homebrewing, or rooting for the home team, he's busy trying to make the world a better place for programming.

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2 Responses to “Next time you’re in the Boston Area”

  1. Cnenf replied on July 18th, 2008 at 19:12 UTC :

    Thank you Michael! MATLAB and this blog has proven itself to be simply invaluable in nearly every project we do. Thank you for all the time and effort you and your team put into this.

    P.S. I always root for the underdog.

  2. Mike replied on July 21st, 2008 at 07:49 UTC :

    Thanks. Let us know what kinds of things you find most useful.

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