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5 Tech Issues That Can Slow Down Innovation

IdeaScale

However, for every technological advancement, there seems to be a learning curve or adjustment period as we try to figure out how to implement automation into our daily lives. 1 The Devil in Design. Innovations like virtualization and utilizing proxy servers has been a boon for software research, development, and production.

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Integrating ‘Agile’ Approaches into ‘Waterfall’ Cultures

InnovationTraining.org

If we can understand this set of desired outcomes, we can plan backwards from that endpoint to determine a series of steps in product or service design. Agile design, on the other hand, begins without a clear endpoint, assuming that any presumptions about results may bias or limit our opportunities and options.

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Bringing User Centered Design to the Agile Environment

Boxes and Arrows

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. This required the design team to work a “Sprint&# (month long iteration) ahead of the development team. Where did Agile come from?

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User Experience: Advantages of the UX strategy

mjvinnovation

.” Essentially a user experience design process that identifies opportunities and plans on how best to take advantage of them, creating that differential required to stay ahead. Companies with tight schedules and budgets must deal with the reality that product development may not be fast or cheap. Designing your UX strategy.

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Persona Grata

Boxes and Arrows

In my experience as an interaction designer, I have come across many strategies and approaches to help increase the quality and consistency of my work, but none is more misunderstood or misused than that of the persona. Personas have been in use since the mid-1990s and since then have gained widespread awareness within the design community.

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Why Build, Measure, Learn – isn’t just throwing things against the wall to see if they work – the Minimal Viable Product

Steve Blank

I am always surprised when critics complain that the Lean Startup’s Build, Measure, Learn approach is nothing more than “throwing incomplete products out of the building to see if they work.”. Unfortunately the Build, Measure, Learn diagram is the cause of that confusion. Build, Measure, Learn sounds pretty simple. Here’s how.

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As our lives become more automated, these are the skills you’ll need

Faisal Hoque

For instance, an engineer who can develop brilliant new product designs but who can’t effectively communicate the value of those designs to others (or collaborate with design teams to bring those ideas to life) is doing himself and his organization a major disservice. Break out of your shell once in a while.