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How to Keep Innovating in an Economic Downturn

Innov8rs

Innovators are forced to give up on initiatives, projects, and resources. In this context, innovators wonder how to get ideas across, how to continue projects, what back-up solutions to find and how to keep innovation afloat. The long-horizon projects are the first to go and this leads to an unbalanced innovation portfolio.

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How to Boost Innovation by Recycling Existing Ideas

IdeaScale

For the hardware: A thousand songs in your pocket ; for the software: so easy that your Mother could do it ; and for the project: and on the shelves in eight months ! As Bill Fischer highlights in his ‘Innovating The iPod’ article; “The goals articulated by the leadership were surprisingly simple, broad yet precise.

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The UX Professionals’ Guide to Working with Agile Scrum Teams

Boxes and Arrows

The adoption of Agile software development approaches are on the rise across our industry, which means UX professionals are more likely than ever to support Agile projects. In 2009, I moved on to Salesforce.com, where Agile methods (including Scrum) were implemented across their entire research and development organization.

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The Engineering Stakeholder Interview

Boxes and Arrows

Project Management for Stakeholder Interviews. If there are no design engineers, a system architect and GUI lead may be the best option for software expertise. However, any technical group’s reluctance to give up control over design is usually due to the fact that so far, they’ve been the most competent to do it.

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The General Stakeholder Interview

Boxes and Arrows

Project Management for Stakeholder Interviews. One of the key things to look for in the response is any hint of functionality no one has mentioned before, since this is important not only in helping the product team achieve consensus, but also in keeping the project timeline within bounds. What worries you about this project?

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IA Summit 09 - Day 1

Boxes and Arrows

IA Summit 2009 Podcasts The IA Summit was held in Memphis, TN from March 20-22. Experimental computer scientist Peter Sweeney and Software / Web application developer Robert Barlow-Busch demonstrate existing technologies that are already moving the Web towards more consumer-directed forms of information architecture.

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So You Wanna Build a Library, Eh?

Boxes and Arrows

The following article is an abridged version of Chapter 7 of Nathan Curtis’s 2009 book, Modular Web Design published by New Riders. Project priorities change. Patterns offer principles to follow and avoid specifics like style, editorial guidelines, page location, and finalized code. Portability: Designers come and go.