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Designing in an Agile World
The earliest process I knew as a designer was no process at all. That was my job at the Racing Form where in addition to managing the company news site we ran a Web hosting service for a dozen race...
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If they’re going to cut scope, you’ve got to watch out for the ‘Mutant Potato...
In addition to facing very tight development schedules, we invariably find ourselves needing to cut scope from a project in order to meet the desired ship dates. At our company, we’re operating in a...
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‘The Questions’
So I found myself in one of those cycles not too long ago where some big projects were coming to an end. Woo-hoo! We’re ready to ship something! The teams were driving toward the finish line with just...
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A lesson in seeking input from your target audience, as learned from the...
It’s crunch time again: Just one more iteration to go before code freeze in our next dot-X release. And once again we’re right down to the wire, hoping to get the marquee feature done on time. A lot of...
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QUOTE
“An MVP is not an excuse for a crappy product,” she says. “MVPs are all about learning, and you don’t learn anything from a crappy product except that people don’t like crappy products.” – Chris Bank,...
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Making usability problems real for project stakeholders
Sometimes the old techniques work best. On a recent project, one of our lead UX analysts ran into a situation where some long-standing usability issues were impacting the success of a...
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Using a ‘Traffic Cop’ to Quick-fix Design Problems
Back in October, IxDA PHX hosted a ‘Design Thinking Workshop’ as part of Phoenix Design Week 2014. I’m one of the local leaders who helped organize the event. We had over 100 people signed up, which...
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