Remember when adults used to tell you not to play with your food? Yeah, well...
Title: What Marshmallows and Spaghetti Can Teach Your Design Team Context: If you can’t learn about design from marshmallows and spaghetti, how else exactly are you to be expected to learn about...
View ArticleDon’t call me, I’ll call…Actually I’m not gonna call you either.
Skype has made a lot of news lately and now claims to represent 25% of international long distance minutes. That’s an impressive statistic, but being a cynic about statistics (and dam lies), I thought...
View ArticleWho tells your product’s story? If you can’t answer that, your product is...
Title: Why We Need Storytellers at the Heart of Product Development Context: I’m going to continue beating the storytelling drum until I finally get to the end of this particular story about this guy...
View ArticleThe user experience of user experience teams.
Title: Designing the Right Team for UX : An Art and a Science Context: Hey! I’m on a user experience team! What a coincidence! Synopsis: There’s more to designing a good user experience than just...
View ArticleDesigners and engineers need each other. Just not in “that” way.
Title: How designers and engineers can play nice (and still run with scissors) Context: We spend more time with them then we do with our family. Isn’t it about time we started to like them too?...
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Title: How to Win the UX War Within Your Organization Context: In some organizations, getting buy-in for UX as a core business competency is fraught with difficulty and pitfalls. Imagine that....
View ArticleReturn Of The Attack Of The Killer Pencils Part 2 The Sequel!!!!!!
Title: Don’t Be Afraid of a Pencil. Context: Sketching isn’t something to be afraid of…Unless someone stabs you in the brain with a pencil. But that almost never happens. Synopsis: Yes you can sketch....
View ArticleGetting everyone on the same page first requires that everyone is capable of...
Title: The Broken Telephone Game of Defining Software and UI Requirements Context: Every additional step in the process between your design and engineering teams is a potential point of failure that...
View ArticleHow to design a great design team.
Title: Nine patterns among great UX teams Context: The difference between a good design team and a great one actually has little to do with the design skills of the team itself. Synopsis: I wish I...
View Article“I don’t like the use of that color” isn’t a critique, it’s an admission of...
Title: Collaboration through the Design Studio Context: There is an art to both the giving, and receiving, of criticism. Synopsis: Nobody likes to hear people tell them how much they suck. Rudeness is...
View ArticleWhile a kidney punch seems like the right response to “Why do we need UX?” a...
Title: The hardest thing in UX design… Context: It gets easier. Or so I’ve been told. Synopsis: There are many difficult aspects to being a user experience designer: long hours, constant rework,...
View Article“Yes…it is true…this man has a dick for a head…” and other team building...
Title: NO DICKHEADS! A Guide To Building Happy, Healthy, and Creative Teams. Context: It’s easy to call yourselves a team. However, actually being a team takes a lot of hard work. Synopsis: Tolstoy...
View ArticleBass. Eames. Rand. Ive. Wall-E. The greatest design minds of our time—Wait!...
Title: 4 Design Lessons From The Pixar Team Context: Pixar doesn’t just “make” movies, they design them. And like all design, they have a process. Synopsis: Creative genius is messy. You could not...
View ArticleYou want your product to work well with other companies’ products? I find...
Title: The Edges Context: It’s all fun and games until your user experience runs into someone else’s user experience. Synopsis: You spend months crafting your product’s user experience. You consider...
View ArticlePost-its do not a designer make. But good luck designing without them.
Title: In Defense of Post-its Context: Sticky notes: the cause of — and solution to — all of your design problems. Synopsis: Most collaborative design processes are worth their weight in Post-its....
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