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5 Tech Issues That Can Slow Down Innovation

IdeaScale

1 The Devil in Design. Innovations like virtualization and utilizing proxy servers has been a boon for software research, development, and production. Such tools enable digital design and high-fidelity prototyping, but they also have specific hardware and software requirements that come with their own issues.

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Setting Industry Benchmarks Through Client Collaboration

Anaqua

The Anaqua difference–what makes our client-led software development unique–is that our customers can be confident they will see their input reflected within our solutions and steady cadence of releases. Our clients and collaborating with them compels us to provide the highest quality IP software and consulting services available.

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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. Core Elements of Agile.

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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 is developing digital products one of the solutions to overcome the crisis?

mjvinnovation

Who would have thought it would be possible to get a credit card without any contact with human service, not even sending the documentation? In times of digital solutions, design gains status as a great ally to bring differentiation to acquiring and retaining the customer. Don’t forget: Design creates a link.