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

mjvinnovation

Rethinking how to do your business is an urgent demand to be aligned with this new user behavior. What makes us believe that developing digital products is not only a solution to overcome the crisis, but also to generate business value after it too. How to continue business in this context? Bonus 2: Agile Software Development.

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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. FOCUSING ON “SOFT SKILLS” PAYS OFF–LITERALLY.

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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. FOCUSING ON “SOFT SKILLS” PAYS OFF–LITERALLY.

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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. 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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The Engineering Stakeholder Interview

Boxes and Arrows

Try to speak with engineering management as well as the design engineer(s), if such a role exists; it’s seldom a good idea to involve the entire engineering team at this point. If there are no design engineers, a system architect and GUI lead may be the best option for software expertise. Engineering stakeholders.

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IA Summit 09 - Day 2

Boxes and Arrows

Integrating Effective Prototyping into Your Design Process – Fred Beecher Senior User Experience Consultant Fred Beecher shows his audience how to determine what, for your particular situation, is the most effective way to use prototyping to improve the user experience of your site or software. And that’s a shame.

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The role of design thinking in fixed price contracts

Dawid

We often rely on these people to translate how the business works into a format that can be understood by a development team. Even if there is existing documentation and process maps, they are often outdated and there is informal processes that are locked up in years of experience and routine. It’s not their role.