CATALOGING THE ART AND SCIENCE OF USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN
Title: How One Company Taught Its Employees How To Be Happier, And What Happened Next Context: How do you get to your happy place? Practice, practice, practice. Synopsis: Happiness and work do not always go hand in hand. And that’s … Continued
Title: Enterprise Software: Why the User Experience Matters Context: Enterprise software is where user experience goes to die…Until now! Synopsis: Anyone who has ever worked in an enterprise level business knows one thing: the systems and software used in those … Continued
Title: The Rhythms of Work vs The Rhythms of Creative Labor Context: We all work for a living. The lucky among us also labor at something we love. Synopsis: Many pages have been filled since the dawn of the industrial … Continued
Title: Why You Can’t Buy Creativity Context: Sure you earn your salary but the quality of your output does not (or should not) be a function of how much money you make. It’s the other way around really. Synopsis: How … Continued
The Triangle of Despair. Many an hour has been wasted in those treacherous seas mateys. via: Parts unknown
Title: Why work doesn’t happen at work Context: Great TEDx talk by Jason Fried, co-founder of 37signals who explains why “work” the place and “work” the set of tasks we get paid to accomplish are sometimes mutually exclusive. Synopsis: Want … Continued