Agile+UX - remembering what a team's sposed to be
Many engineers would rather light fires and throw axes, but someone's got to do the dishes. UX is the dishes, and you've got to get it done.
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Agile + UX: (un)Synchronizing UX and development
User experience can help agile teams create better experiences, but agile isn't designed to manage user experience.
Some thoughts about Twitter
Random thoughts about Twitter as an ad hoc social platform, intimacy, the relative nature of phatic communication, and forgetting.
(More) tips for writing well
Sixteen tips for writing well when writing about design learned from the trenchant trenches at Boxes and Arrows.
Agile + UX: six strategies for more agile user experience
Six ways to be more agile and better integrate user experience and information architecture into agile development teams.
A sample 'Only' statement for the I.A. Institute
A look at how to put an Only statement together, as well as how it works using the I.A. Institute as an example.
Agile + UX = idealized vs. current state
Agile's focus on small iteration needs a team that can build the now, remember the future, and recognize the gap between the two.
Agile + User Experience = Parallel work streams
In an agile process with a rolling series of sprints, UX requires two, parallel work streams, clear expectations, and constant status reports.
Unique visitors is a dumb metric
Dumb, aggregate metrics like unique visitors and total page visits give no real insight into your site's success. You need behavior-based metrics.
A new design
Just launched a new design. I'm proud. Not because it's the greatest design ever, but because it really matches who I am with what I need.
Site Architecture Stencil for OmniGraffle
Improved site map stencil for OmniGraffle users that's based on EightShapes's Unify deliverable system. You can download it.
It's just "User Experience"
Richard Dalton has started an online petition for replacing IA and IxD with "user experience design". Go sign it.
Improving qualitative metrics: adding comparisons
Clarify the "compared to what", and all of a sudden your whole team is now answering the same question.
How important is the polite fiction of secrecy?
I'm wondering how important is secrecy to the people who operate at our cultural borders. Does it really matter?
Weekly usability tests, Nielsen talks about Tivo
Nielsen shares how frequent usability tests keep you usability focused. I want to know how you keep yourself experience focused.
Fantastic case study on ATM design
Holger Struppek writes a fantastic case study on the new interface design for Wells Fargo ATMs for 'Physical Interface'.
The U.X. health check, a Summit side conversation
I'd like to get some feedback on the "health check", a method for quantifying the quality of a user experience.
Seven barriers to UX: The Organization doesn't VALUE design
Part two of my series on the barriers to UX is up on the Follow the UX Leader blog.
Lean UX and Agile interview on Epic Bagel
Epic Bagel's Jon Bolt and I talk about agile, user experience, and lean UX on the Epic Bagel blog. Plus! Win a copy of Blueprints!
Barriers to UX series on the Follow the UX Leader blog
My series on organizational barriers to user experience has started on the Follow the UX Leader blog.