scrum project management process
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Cascading style sheets
So the whole content management part didn’t end up working for my site that I’ve been working on, but I did learn how to make a website using more than 1 cascading style sheet to alternate looks. Because of the variety of ages of my target users for my website, I wanted to provide text
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Free Online Content Mangement (CMS) Applications
I recently volunteered to do a small web project for a non-profit organization. I used several of my user centered design techniques, and it really does seem like using this process almost makes the site self designing. Although this will sound contradictory, i didn’t do customer interviews because the project was supposed to be a
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Writing Personas
Part of my responsibility as a Human Factors engineer is to write user personas. A personas is a fictitious character that embodies many of the characteristics of many users into one user. The persona is generated from customer data collected during interviews in the User-Centered Design process. A persona is only effective when it can
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Coxsackie Virus Sux
When I originally started this blog, my intent was to be able to keep a professional journal, but every once in a while when you get your personal world gets rocked, it becomes very hard to keep focused on UX only, so I am dedicating this blog post to what happened to me and my
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Visualization or UI Prototyping Applications
I have recently been exposed to a new type of software that I did not know existed before. Being in the line of work I’m in, it seems to me that these applications would offer a tremendous advantage. The software that I am speaking of is Visualization or UI Prototyping software. These allow users to
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I survived DSView 3 Training…
This week I attended a formal training class on DSView 3 software. This is the primary application that my team develops and supports. It is also the application which has the User Interface that I support. Now the DSView3 UI looks dated at best. However, updating and making changes to this UI is going to hold