CATALOGING THE ART AND SCIENCE OF USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN
Title: How to produce better designs for complex apps Context: User stories: the cause of — and solution to — all of your software’s problems. Synopsis: Ernest Hemingway famously said about writing stories: “Write drunk, edit sober.” Unfortunately when it … Continued
Title: Why Do Managers Hate Agile? Context: The question is no longer “should we go Agile?” but rather “when?” Synopsis: Business buzzword alert: AGILE! Yes, we’ve all heard it repeated ad nauseam. “We’re doing Agile” has to be one of … Continued
Title: Doing UX in an Agile World: Case Study Findings Context: Agile: It’s not just about programming anymore. Now UX designers get to suffer as well. Synopsis: There is an apocryphal saying about democracy being the worst form of government … Continued
Title: Applying Agile Principles to Design Context: Put down the Photoshop and iterate. Synopsis: The jury is no longer out on Agile and UX design. The verdict: perfect together! Great news for those who have been doing Agile based design … Continued
Title: The UX Professionals’ Guide to Working with Agile Scrum Teams Context: Agile is the new waterfall. Which was really just the new “just design me something”. Synopsis: Who doesn’t love Agile? UX designers that’s who. Or rather, they don’t … Continued
Title: Why People Don’t Understand How to Use Your Software Context: Cross functional teams are the best way to design software. And the worst. Synopsis: The biggest difference between the team designing the software and the people using it is … Continued
Title: Five Big UX Topics in 2012 Context: Wait! It’s still January right? We can still talk about 2012 then?!?! Synopsis: So, now they come crawling back. Begging on hands and knees, employing us user experience practitioners to save their … Continued
Title: Agile UX – How To Avoid Big Design Up Front By Pretending Not To Do Big Design Up Front Context: User experience design within an Agile environment doesn’t always go according to plan. So that should be part of … Continued
Title: Integrating UX into Agile Development Context: You’re not Agile as long as the user experience guys are on the outside looking in. Synopsis: Of the numerous benefits of adopting an Agile development approach to any project, none is more … Continued
Title: When is design done? Context: We should all be familiar with the Agile definition of done, but what is the design definition of done? Probably – no – DEFINITELY, not the same thing. Synopsis: There are lots of cues … Continued