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Agile+UX - remembering what a team's sposed to be

Agile+UX - remembering what a team's sposed to be

Tue, May 18 in Working better

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.

Agile + UX: (un)Synchronizing UX and development

Tue, Apr 7 in Agile+UX / Lean+UX

User experience can help agile teams create better experiences, but agile isn't designed to manage user experience.

Some thoughts about Twitter

Wed, Apr 16 in Social Architecture

Random thoughts about Twitter as an ad hoc social platform, intimacy, the relative nature of phatic communication, and forgetting.

(More) tips for writing well

(More) tips for writing well

Wed, Jul 8 in Writing

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

Wed, May 7 in Agile+UX / Lean+UX

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 sample 'Only' statement for the I.A. Institute

Thu, Jun 12 in Methods and Practice

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

Tue, Apr 8 in Agile+UX / Lean+UX

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

Mon, Apr 7 in Agile+UX / Lean+UX

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

Unique visitors is a dumb metric

Mon, Mar 24 in Measuring UX

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

A new design

Tue, Mar 18

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

Site Architecture Stencil for OmniGraffle

Tue, Oct 19 in Methods and Practice, Publications

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"

Mon, Mar 30

Richard Dalton has started an online petition for replacing IA and IxD with "user experience design". Go sign it.

Improving qualitative metrics: adding comparisons

Improving qualitative metrics: adding comparisons

Tue, Jun 24 in Measuring UX

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?

Fri, May 2 in Social Architecture

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

Tue, Jul 29 in Measuring UX

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

Thu, Jun 5 in Methods and Practice, Process and Theory

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

The U.X. health check, a Summit side conversation

Thu, Apr 10 in Conferences & Events, Measuring UX

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

Tue, Sep 20 in Agile+UX / Lean+UX, Publications

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

Tue, Sep 13 in Agile+UX / Lean+UX, Publications

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

Tue, Sep 13 in Agile+UX / Lean+UX, Publications

My series on organizational barriers to user experience has started on the Follow the UX Leader blog.

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