CATALOGING THE ART AND SCIENCE OF USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN
Title: Building Industrial Strength User Experience Context: It’s probably around 10% of your budget, but you might want to get more than 10% of your people on board with it. Synopsis: So the conventional wisdom for building an effective user … Continued
Title: Who Is on the UX Team? Context: Great user experience comes from more than just user experience designers. Synopsis: It is easy for UX teams to become territorial about their jobs. I mean everybody is always giving us their … Continued
Title: Want Creative Workers? Loosen the Reins, Boss Context: Creativity and productivity are hard to schedule between meetings. Synopsis: Guess what? Deadlines and rigid scheduling of deliverables for knowledge workers responsible for developing and building “innovative” solutions to complex problems … Continued
Title: Nigel Marsh: How to make work-life balance work Context: If your job is the most important thing in your life, you need to seriously reexamine your life. Synopsis: We work hard. And we should be proud of that. We … Continued
Title: How to Create More Better Different Context: Creativity is a process, which means it can be analyzed and understood. Contrary to popular opinion. Synopsis: The creative genius cannot be understood. He/she is far too complex. He/she operates on a … Continued
Title: Protecting Your Creativity in a Culture that Doesn’t Value It Context: Let me say this right off the bat: I value your creativity. Big time. No matter what all those other people say about you. (C’mon. These are jokes … Continued
Title: The 5% Creativity Challenge Context: If you can’t spend 2 hours a week thinking about ways to be more creative at work then what’s the freaking point really? Synopsis: Innovate! More inventive solutions! Increased creativity! We get this a … Continued
Title: The fall and rise of user experience Context: Put some coffee on and sit back for this epic analysis of the past, present and future of the UX profession. Synopsis: In many ways UX is a victim of its … Continued
Title: Thomas Jefferson and preparing for meetings Context: Never bring a rough concept to a finished design fight. Synopsis: What the hell does Thomas Jefferson have to do with user experience? Well, not much actually. But this story isn’t about … Continued
Title: Creative Types: Embrace Chaos Context: Malcolm Gladwell discusses creative chaos using his hair as a visual aid. Just jokes people! I kid because I love. Synopsis: Creativity is usually a messy process. Not “I wish I had used a … Continued
Title: The Role of Humor in Innovation Context: Send in the clowns; I want to change the world. Synopsis: Changing the way people think is not easy. Neither is making them laugh. But they actually may be one in the … Continued
Title: The ROI of User Experience Context: How much money can good UX design make your company? A bazillion-trillion-quadrillion dollars*! (*Estimate only. Your results may vary.) Synopsis: Why keep us UX people around? If you mean besides our dashing good … Continued
Title: Five Indispensable Skills for UX Mastery Context: “Jack (or Jill) of all trades, master of all.” Sorry, that’s the job description. Synopsis: The great thing about being a user experience designer is that we get to do lots of … Continued
Title: What Marshmallows and Spaghetti Can Teach Your Design Team Context: If you can’t learn about design from marshmallows and spaghetti, how else exactly are you to be expected to learn about design? Synopsis: Design – good, workable design – … Continued
Title: ABC Nightline – IDEO Shopping Cart Context: What the redesign process of an everyday object can – and probably should – look like. Synopsis: This Nightline special must be over a decade old but it is still relevant from … Continued