Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 31, 2010

I built a team with a dedicated user researcher; information architect; interaction and visual designers and we even made a guerilla usability lab and had regular test sessions. As the Creative Director, I deferred authority to him to develop the product as he saw fit. This is an extreme example of where SCRUM went bad.

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Boxes and Arrows

MARCH 30, 2010

Large scale websites require groups of specialists to design and develop a product that will be a commercial success. To develop a completely new site requires several teams to collaborate and this can be difficult. Particularly as different teams may be working with different methods. People make or break any project.

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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Developers own the code, business owns the proposition, yet design is considered a “service.” One opportunity for designers is to “own” the future, to use their unique skills to document and maintain the future state of the product. The team also keeps the design vision up to date, updating it as they learn from customers.

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mjvinnovation

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Recently, Walmart deployed about 500 bots to automate a variety of things, from answering employee questions to retrieving helpful information from audit documents. Many RPA problems stem from poor management of expectations. The best option is to start with a project and learn from the process. Involve IT early and often.

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 29, 2015

In the previous article we talked about why site optimization is important and presented a few important goals and philosophies to impart on your team. We created the following minimum completion criteria for my past team at DIRECTV Latin America. I’d like to switch gears now and talk about more tactical stuff, namely, process.

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mjvinnovation

MARCH 26, 2019

Traditionally, the Waterfall model is a linear approach that has a sequence of events somewhat like this: To Gather and document requirements; To draw; Code and unit test; To Perform the system test; To Perform the user acceptance test; To Correct any problem; To Deliver the finished product. There are good and bad things about this approach.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

This does not mean copying what “innovative companies” like Netflix are doing (much of their famous HR Culture document would simply not work in many other companies), but instead seeing what impact their own processes are having, and how they can enable and encourage more innovative behaviours, from people at all levels of the company.

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Boxes and Arrows

JULY 10, 2008

However, there still remains much to discuss about what makes a UX team dreamy. We’ll also touch on the quality of an individual’s personality that may or may not complement the others on your team. Ensure a proportion of creative genius in your Dreamteam to increase business success and thereby the team’s reputation.

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Boxes and Arrows

APRIL 24, 2009

In this presentation, Dominic La Cava , Senior Information Architect at Vanguard, and Kellie Rae Carter UX researcher at Comcast Interactive Media, demonstrate how one design team incorporated game techniques into a redesign project. By understanding basic psychological principles we can raise the bar on our projects!

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Boxes and Arrows

OCTOBER 31, 2008

first creating wireframes, which are handed off to creative, who hand off comps to tech, and so forth), and you want to explore more contemporary methodologies, such as agile and iterative development. The way that look and feel is developed and applied will vary widely from team to team.

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Boxes and Arrows

DECEMBER 19, 2013

The first article discussed the pros and cons of different UX team structures. For companies that depend on user experience for business success, a strong internal team is essential. They can be fantastic partners who drive real change, but their needs are very different from a product team. But how do you get there from here?

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IM Insights

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Welcome to the Innovation Metrics podcast, where we bring you the latest on innovation management, we provide insights on how to measure innovation, innovation accounting, and managing the uncertain process of developing new, sustainable, and profitable business models. And then we sat, and we discussed text documents.

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