Mike on the MATLAB Desktop

August 15th, 2011

We’re always improving MATLAB and our other products. Each release we not only fix bugs and add requested features, but we also incorporate your feedback to make our software easier to use. The easier MATLAB is to use, the more productive you’ll be.

To that end I invite you if you’re in the greater Boston area to come visit us and participate in a Usability study. You’ll get to see and use upcoming MathWorks products. It’s a great chance to meet the developers and share your MATLAB joys and pains directly with us.

In particular, if you’re a smartphone user, you can help us shape future versions of MATLAB Mobile. You don’t have to be an existing MATLAB Mobile user, but that is preferred. To participate in our study send an email to and put “MATLAB Mobile Usability” in the subject line.

If you are desktop MATLAB, Simulink, or other MathWorks product user you can participate in one of many other studies. Just go to http://www.mathworks.com/products/usability/index.html and fill out the very short form. For those studies, you don’t even have to be local to us; some of the studies are done online.

I hope to meet you in our fancy usability lab.

Due to a small snafu last week, I sent out two posts on this blog. In case you missed one or both of them, here they area again:

• What is Link Exchange?
• If You Know Your History, You Can Repeat It

By Michael Katz

Mike is a developer on the MATLAB Mobile 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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3 Responses to “We Want You To Help Us Make Our Software Better”

1. junziyang@gmail.com replied on August 16th, 2011 at 00:07 UTC :
   

   And support for direct code and compile of Fortran MEX in the Editor. Such as automatic indent, convenient setup of external compilers etc.

2. Kevin replied on August 26th, 2011 at 17:54 UTC :
   

   Any official ETA on when Matlab Mobile will make it to Android? My current setup of VNCing to a desktop machine works, but it would be nice to compare with a native app.

3. Mike replied on August 31st, 2011 at 18:55 UTC :
   

   @Kevin,
   As always I can’t give any promises, timelines, or updates. Just keep patient with us. Thanks.

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