The 9 Principles of Lean User Experience

Lean UX Design + Product Management + Development = 1 team Externalize! Goal-driven & outcome-focused Repeatable & routinized FLOW: think -> make -> check Focus on solving the right problem Generate many options & decide quickly what to pursue Recognize hypotheses & validate them Research with users is the best source of information & inspiration… Continue reading The 9 Principles of Lean User Experience

Communication is a key skill as a designer

Zeldman is teaching a class “Selling Design” and has made an online reading list. http://www.zeldman.com/2012/01/11/selling-design-an-online-reading-list/ Demystifying Design – by Jeff Gothelf – A List Apart Design Criticism and the Creative Process – by Cassie McDaniel – A List Apart Personality in Design – by Aarron Walter – A List Apart Design Professionalism – by Andy… Continue reading Communication is a key skill as a designer

Curate forums for me

Curate forums for me I would like to have a spider go out and collect the references from multiple forums and put them in one place. I want to search this aggregate site not the individual rambling. Tell Mr Spider to go to sites X, Y and Z. Look for any topic on “UI patterns”… Continue reading Curate forums for me

Innovation in Big Companies

Do Innovation Consultants Kill Innovation? ” Are companies more innovative than ever before? Judging from the vast number of Fortune 500 companies professing their commitment to innovation, the answer is yes. But we sense that the more a company talks, thinks, and strategizes about innovation, the less real, big innovation it produces.” -Jens Martin Skibsted… Continue reading Innovation in Big Companies

Using Big Data to make better decisions

“We are ruined by our own biases. When making decisions, we see what we want, ignore probabilities, and minimize risks that uproot our hopes. What’s worse, “we are often confident even when we are wrong,” by Daniel Kahneman “How analytics harvested from massive databases will begin to inform our day-to-day business decisions. Call it Big… Continue reading Using Big Data to make better decisions