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What impact does time pressure have on creativity?

Idea to Value

Diamonds are formed under pressure There are numerous examples of companies who allowed staff to take time to work on their own innovations and creative ideas. Or how modern video game developers often need to work right up until the last minute to finish a game before it is released to critical acclaim.

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Flow Metrics for the Win — Planview Named a Leader in Forrester Wave™ on Value Stream Management

Planview

My first experience with it was back in 2006 when I took a call from Carey Schwaber of Forrester. I was not sure who Forrester was and why they were researching a category called Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). We held a mutual view on how collaboration and tooling are needed to span the end-to-end software lifecycle.

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The Gremlin Strategy, or How to Ward Off Disruption

Matthew May

Such a person is Brian Muirhead, who at age 41 in 1993 accepted the job as flight systems manager of the Mars Pathfinder project and with it the NASA challenge to land a cutting-edge, remote-controlled robotic all-terrain rover on Mars that would reliably beam back images, collect samples, and return scientific data on the red planet.

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Emotional Design with A.C.T. - Part 1

Boxes and Arrows

As UX professionals, we strive to design engaging experiences. These experiences help to forge relationships between the products we create and the people who use them. Whether you’re designing a website or a physical product, the formation of a relationship depends on how useful, usable and pleasurable the experience is.

Design 101
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Why you need extreme constraints to fuel innovation

hackerearth

In their book A Beautiful Constraint: How To Transform Your Limitations Into Advantages, and Why It's Everyone's Business , Morgan and Barden, say. “By By making a constraint beautiful, we mean seeing it as an opportunity, not a punitive restriction, and using it as a stimulus to see a new or better way of achieving our ambition.”.

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Design for Emotion and Flow

Boxes and Arrows

We create software and websites to display and represent information to people. We tend to enter these states in environments with few interruptions, where our attention becomes focused by a challenge that we’re confident we can handle with our existing skills. Hours pass by in what seems like minutes.

Design 95
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Brown Bag Innovation

Gregg Fraley

.” Gregg Fraley, keynote speech, circa 2006. It’s a lunch time workshop for those who are typically not involved in focused innovation efforts. Because we’ve trained people to ignore things outside their job description. Communicate exactly how to contribute to innovation without disrupting operational duties.