CATALOGING THE ART AND SCIENCE OF USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN
Title: The Bias Against Creatives as Leaders Context: “The creative can’t lead and those who lead can’t be creative.” Hogwash, balderdash, and flimflammery are but 3 creative words that can be used to disagree with such stupidity. Synopsis: The creative … 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: What Great Companies Know About Culture Context: An organization is only as good as its people. Everyone says it, not everyone means it. But I do. Because you guys are the wind beneath my wings… Synopsis: When the going … Continued
Title: On UX Leadership Context: Your organization’s user experience teams are only as effective as the people who lead them. Synopsis: Probably the biggest gap in most organizations’ user experience teams is quality leadership. Talent can exist in spades. Research, … Continued
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: 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