Blog. Vladyslava Shekula

Good and bad designs of ergonomic devices Ergonomics has recently gained great popularity and every day we meet with different ergonomic devices that make our lives easier and sometimes, on the contrary, complicate it and create problems. In this blog post, will be elaborated examples of good and bad ergonomics design, in IT and in everyday life.   Examples of Ergonomic IT Devices Good design: Wireless headphones   The most important advantage of wireless headphones is the absence of wires, which means providing convenience during operation. If there are no wires, then they do not get confused, do not cling to clothes, do not tear. Other than that, wireless headphones have their own storage, can be controlled using touch sensors, and usually have better sound quality.   Bad design: Robot vacuum cleaner   On the one hand, it may seem that a robot vacuum cleaner should not be a bad IT ergonomic device because it has a huge number of advantages, but at the same time, this device has a lar

  Description of an IT specialist in Ukraine The IT sphere in Ukraine over the past 20 years has developed quite intensively and has become one of the leading and most advanced areas in the country, and everything, in my opinion, is thanks to specialists. Obviously, since the 2000s, the IT sector in Ukraine has been developing and becoming more in demand, as well as specialists working in the IT field, and if we compare the characteristics of an IT specialist over the past 20 years, we can notice some changes.   It can be a bit difficult to say anything about the qualities of an IT specialist in Ukraine because every person is an individual. However, according to some patterns, the majority of IT specialists in Ukraine have such qualities as responsibility, attentiveness, purposefulness, punctuality, creativity and the ability to work in a team. Definitely, this is only a part of the advantages that Ukrainian IT specialists have. The quality of IT specialists in Ukraine has experienced

Virginia Shea's First Commandment - Remember the Human The first and, in my opinion, the most important commandment of Virginia Shea is to always remember the human. In other words, this commandment implies that although you use an electronic gadget for communication, this does not mean that you are communicating with a robot on the other side of the screen. Every person has feelings and when you do not communicate with someone directly, that is, you do not have eye contact and you do not see the facial expressions of a person, at such moments it can be problematic to understand a person and therefore you can easily offend someone. Even if you did not carry anything bad, all the same, your words can be pulled out of context, because each person perceives information in his or her own way. Therefore, I believe that when writing, you always need to understand the person and put yourself in his place. If somebody wrote to me, then, for instance, I would not want to receive messages at

Analysis of the impact that copyleft has on the choice of the software license for the project Definitely, copyleft has a very strong influence on the project, since it is this license that determines how the work will be built. For instance, it is important for developers to know such facts as to whether there are source codes or whether they need to create everything from scratch, whether there are any restrictions or there is complete freedom of ideas and thoughts in the work. And if we have a question about whether the license affects derivative works or not, then we can immediately get an answer that comes out of the lines above and this answer is positive. Speaking about the variety of copyleft, there are different forms of it, such as strong, weak, and generally no copyleft. In my post, I will look at each of these forms and determine what impact each of them has on the choice of a software license for a project. The first form I would like to consider is the strong copyleft. Th