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An Open Letter to Project Managers

Boxes and Arrows

Dear Project Managers, It has been a very enjoyable experience working with everyone over the last couple of months and sharing our ideas on UX design. User-centric design principles, however, do not replace the fact-finding mission we all need to take as UX designers; they merely serve as a starting point for making design decisions.

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A Beginner’s Guide to Web Site Optimization—Part 2

Boxes and Arrows

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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The Marketing Stakeholder Interview

Boxes and Arrows

This is an excerpt from from Kim Goodwin’s excellent Designing for the Digital Age. Most marketing people will immediately view designers as allies who will promote a customer-centric point of view. Try asking what business they definitely don’t want to be in. Many thanks to Ms. Understanding the Business.

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Information Architecture for Audio: Doing It Right - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design

Boxes and Arrows

Boxes And Arrows : The Design Behind the Design Register or Log In Search Stories Ideas Forums People Events Jobs About December Issue, 2008 Jens Jacobsen 32 Reputation points Jens likes writing for multimedia and loves tracking down usability issues. Your approach to creating audio should be similar to developing a large website.

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Are Design Patterns an Anti-pattern?

Boxes and Arrows

Design patterns are generally considered a good thing, but do they actually help run a user experience group? As a user experience group manager and an observer (and sponsor) of design pattern exercises, I’ve come to have serious questions about their actual utility. ” Completeness and learn-ability are in conflict.

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Cynefin: A framework that grows for me all the time in its value and worth.

Paul Hobcraft

Adding additional features to software, in any strategic design are more predictable. If we miss a range of important points the obvious suddenly becomes chaotic, a crisis born out of this poor evaluation or simplification. They are never any recipes for success already known, you have to design it. The Complicated Environment.

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User experience: ROI and methods to measure your investment in UX

mjvinnovation

The Design Management Institute researched the size of companies’ competitive edge that they called design-centered – but you can see it there as design-driven, user-centric, or “user focus.” It is necessary to narrow the gap between design and development. This is crucial.