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Designing for Harmony

Boxes and Arrows

In a flash of insight, he realized that software could replace pencil-and-paper accounting for everyone. They had users try their new software, Quicken, while they ran a stopwatch. Then they’d tweak the software and retest until processes that took an hour were reduced to a quarter of that.

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Agile Mindset: How to Use Sprints to Streamline Projects

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Agile Philosophy came from the Agile Manifesto, when a small group of people got together in 2001 to discuss their feelings about the traditional approach to project management for software development. Software that works with broader range of documentations. It was designed to help teams manage development processes.

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Design for Emotion and Flow

Boxes and Arrows

We create software and websites to display and represent information to people. Information architects and designers play a critical role in ensuring the products they design provide users’ with a return on their investment of attention. The causes of flow have the most implications for website and application design.

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Agile Sprint: how it brings efficiency to your business

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Agile practices transform business in multiple directions, providing powerful models of product and service creation, project management, and much more. In software development, the most used agile practices or methodologies are: Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM), SCRUM and XP (Extreme Programming). What are Agile Practices.

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Integrating UX into the Product Backlog

Boxes and Arrows

Teams moving to agile often struggle to integrate agile with best practices in user-centered design (UCD) and user experience (UX) in general. Early agile pioneers were working on in-house IT projects (custom software) or enterprise software [ 1 , 2 ]. Larry makes money even if people can’t use his software.

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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

Microsoft entered the 21st century as the dominant software provider for anyone who interacted with a computing device. 16 years later it’s just another software company. They had lots of these projects. Projects not directly related to those activities never got serious management attention and/or resources. Here’s why.

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IA Summit 10 - Day 3

Boxes and Arrows

Testing Content: Early, Often, and Well – Colleen Jones, Kevin O’Connor In their presentation, Colleen Jones and Kevin O’Connor talk about how testing content is just as important as testing design. In this presentation, Amy Cueva and Megan Grocki discuss how research inspires design and how reality inspires creativity.

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