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UX in an Agile shop: you’re doing it wrong
I'm taking a stab at answering a question that is becoming quite common these days, "How does design fit into an agile development process?" Illustration by I, Timmy I have a decent amount of experience doing UX in "Agile" environments. One thing that's critical to acknowledge is that there is no standard Agile method: every shop [...]
Posted in Craft Tagged agile, design, development, iterative, software, UCD, user experience, user-centered design, UX, waterfall Comments closed
Behance’s new blog: The 99 Percent is five nines awesome
Behance, plugs it's new blog, The 99 Percent as: At 99%, Behance's think tank, we focus on what happens after inspiration — researching the forces that truly push ideas to fruition. Our profiles of proven idea makers, action-oriented tips, best-practices sessions, and annual conference are all designed to help you transform ideas from vision to [...]
Also posted in Content, Favorite New Things, This tastybit Tagged 99 percent, 99%, Behance, blog, Craft, design, ideas Comments closed
10 UX myths, condensed
Keith Lang whipped out a great post over on Carsonified, demystifying ten UX myths. It's really good stuff, and he covers each with humor and ease. That said, it's a little long, so I will give you the condensed version. Photo by cobalt123 Myth #10: If the Design is a Good One, You Don’t Need [...]
Is a good goal just to be “good enough”?
Photo by occhichiusi There's an interesting new Wired article on what they term "The Good Enough Revolution". In it they posit that the intersection of high-tech and low-fidelity is where "good enough" was born and that it's transforming the world as we know it. As the article states, from Flip video cams to Kindle & mp3s [...]
Also posted in Experience Tagged cisco, consumer, design, flip, ford, innovation, product, prototype, prototyping, simplicity Comments closed
A/B Testing 101
Note: This was originally posted 8/5/2009, but has been quite popular. This post on Brian Cray has some great A/B testing resources. It covers most of the posts that I have been looking at over the last few months. Below is a bit of a rundown to get you started. But first, you may be [...]
Also posted in Commerce and Services, Experience, Seriously Tagged A/B, analytics, multivariate, product design, testing, usability, web design, web development, website Comments closed
Insights on designing for social traction
A tweet by @DrBaher pointed to this great slideshow by @bokardo, Designing for Social Traction. At the highest level, it posits that there are 3 core problems to designing social software: The Sign-up Problem The First time Use Problem The Ongoing Engagement Problem Product managers, developers and designers would do well to spend some time [...]
Also posted in Experience, Favorite New Things Comments closed
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