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Using Wikis to Document UI Specifications

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This documentation is commonly known as a UI specification or UI spec. However, designers should be aware of a wiki’s benefits and drawbacks for documentation, since UI specs uniquely reflect a project and its context. As designers, we often find ourselves working with teams that are using agile processes.

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Technical Review: A Trusted Look Under the Hood

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Many CEOs of software-enabled businesses call us with a similar concern: Are we getting the right results from our software team? We hear them explain that their current software development is expensive, deliveries are rarely on time, and random bugs appear. Are you ready?

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Sketchy Wireframes

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Introduction When it comes to user interface documentation, wireframes have long been the tool of choice. This speeds up the ideation process, but doesn’t always produce presentable or maintainable documentation. By the end of the process, wireframes can turn into a highly detailed functional specifications document.

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Integrating UX into the Product Backlog

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Agile methods were developed without consideration for UX best practices. Early agile pioneers were working on in-house IT projects (custom software) or enterprise software [ 1 , 2 ]. The User Experience Integration Matrix (UXI Matrix) addresses these problems by tying UX to the project backlog.

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Bringing User Centered Design to the Agile Environment

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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. Agile can be thought of as a risk-management strategy.

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8 best project management tools

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With the rapid transition to work from home, the recent adoption of project management tools has skyrocketed. These are just a few points that some project management tools need to consider to gain managers’ attention and win the teams’ adoption. Keep reading to understand which is the best for your project.

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Persona Grata

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For those who do use personas, often they are implemented improperly, infrequently, or even worse, both. Personas were informally developed by Alan Cooper in the early 1980s as a way to empathize with and internalize the mindset of people who would eventually use the software he was designing. What are personas?