CATALOGING THE ART AND SCIENCE OF USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN
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: 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: 10 Ways to Be Creative Like a Kid Context: You’re as old as you feel. Same goes for your designs. Synopsis: My wife always tells people that she has 4 kids: our 3 children and me. I take tremendous … Continued
Office culture throwdown: 37signals vs Zappos via teamtreehouse.com
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: Innovation and creative destruction Context: Destruction is the flip side to creativity. Ask any of the blacksmiths that you know. Synopsis: Most creative innovation is also an act of destruction, relegating what came before to the dustbin of history. … Continued
Title: The Three Threats to Creativity Context: Being able to promote and sustain a culture of creative innovation requires us to understand the pitfalls as well as the how-to’s. Synopsis: Short post from the Harvard Business Review that posits the … Continued
Title: Why designers should learn to code. Context: Don’t worry, I’m not heaping more work on you guys. It’s just an interesting opinion. That I happen to share. Synopsis: The hybrid designer/developer mythical creature is rumored to live in a … Continued
Title: WHERE GOOD IDEAS COME FROM Context: Hand drawn, stream of consciousness, 4 minute video answers an age old question. Synopsis: Good ideas are rarely “Eureka!” moments. Much more important are the connections that we make and our ability to … Continued