Methodology - Whitney Hess

Entries Tagged as 'Methodology'

Whit Hour – Week 2

August 9th, 2009 · Comments · Whit Hour

Thank you so much to the 20 or so folks who showed up for the second week of Whit Hour — my new weekly one-hour video chat to answer any and all of your questions about user experience, consulting, and whatever else you throw at me.
Join me next week on Sunday, August 16, 9-10pm Eastern [...]

User Centered Design is now closed

February 18th, 2009 · Comments · Humor, User Experience

Last year at IA Summit 2008, Jared Spool declared that it was time for us to retire the dogma of user-centered design, citing that the most effective design teams don’t follow a specific methodology, but instead have a whole toolbox of techniques and tricks to use when the time is right.
Flip through his slides and [...]

Maimonides’ Eight Levels of Charity Applied to Building Your Personal Brand

February 18th, 2009 · Comments · Career

I’ve been thinking a lot about acts of giving lately. It’s been an incredible year for me and so many people have given me so much. It seems impossible to give back.
In Judaism, it’s common to follow Maimonides’ Eight Levels of Tzedakah (the Hebrew word for charity or justice). The aim is to give as [...]

Redesigning the boxee experience

December 18th, 2008 · Comments · Consulting, User Experience

It’s been a few weeks in the making, but today boxee announced that they’ve hired me to help redesign their user experience from the ground up.
If you haven’t heard of boxee, where have you been hiding? They’ve been in the top 10 trending topics on Twitter for the past month. They’re blowing up the web [...]

“Using Mental Models for Tactics and Strategy” webinar with Indi Young

December 12th, 2008 · Comments · Webinars

Do you know about the new webinar series co-produced by Rosenfeld Media and Smart Experience called Future Practice? It’s a great new series with some of the best voices in user experience talking about how they see best practices turning into next practices.
The first webinar was “Modern Web Form Design with Luke Wroblewski” and you [...]