CATALOGING THE ART AND SCIENCE OF USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN
Title: Calculated Misery: The Dark Side of UX Strategy Context: What’s worse; an unintentionally bad user experience or one designed poorly on purpose? Synopsis: One of the unassailable tenets of modern business is that failing to supply customers with a … Continued
Title: Learning More About Creativity And Innovation From LEGO Context: You can design. And you can innovate. But if you don’t link these processes to business outcomes you’re just wasting everyone’s time. Synopsis: See those guys over there? They design … Continued
Title: Product Strategy Means Saying No Context: “No” means “no”. Except when planning a product. In which case no one ever says “no”. Synopsis: The reasons to put that new feature in your product are endless. “Customers are demanding it!” … 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: Fixing A Broken User Experience Context: If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. But if it is broken, get up off your lazy ass and get to fixin! Synopsis: Fractured user experience. Mis-aligned product portfolio. Multiple visual languages and … Continued
Title: Why you need a user experience vision (and how to create and publicize it) Context: Setting your user experience vision is the easy part. Getting everyone to buy into, now that’s tough. Synopsis: Do you know what you do … Continued