I am a closet amateur historian. Even if I, at least according to my friend who is an actual historian, lack the stamina that makes her keep researching exactly when someone built a certain set…
Last month my article for Testing Trapez Magazine was published. It's about using and making drawings to better explain and reach a common understanding with other as a tester in IT projects (But the article…
I've saved the most difficult post for last in this run of summer-holiday-posts. The user. There are so many ways to represent a user, so the way you draw him/her depends on your context, on what you want to achieve. Note: All the "meanings" or "moods" written under the figures are my own. You can perceive them in a different way. The perceived meaning of symbols are heavily influenced by environment and culture.
Servers are generally depicted as either a square computer hard disc as we know them from stationary computers, or large, square boxes with smaller square discs inserted (Which also looks a lot like a stationary computer). I wish there was some cool story behind their look, but there isn't. That's just how they look.