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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Methodology'
User Centered Design is now closed
February 18th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Humor, User Experience
Maimonides’ Eight Levels of Charity Applied to Building Your Personal Brand
February 18th, 2009 · 11 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 · 20 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 [...]
Tags:Consulting·Design·Methodology·Pleasure·User Experience·Video
“Using Mental Models for Tactics and Strategy” webinar with Indi Young
December 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment · 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 [...]
Personas in the 2008 Presidental Election
November 2nd, 2008 · 3 Comments · Gadgetry
I’ve talked before about how designers use personas to capture user needs, behaviors and motivations. If you were ever wondering how those insights help guide the product design, this pretty much says it all:
[via gregoire]
Questions?
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