User Interface
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Cooper’s Keynote Speech at Agile 2008
I just finished watching the presentation slides from Alan Coopers Keynote Speech at Agile 2008, and it reading it made me want to write another blog entry because he succinctly talks about several important UX concepts. The title of his Keynote speech is The Wisdom of Experience. In this presentation he says “the most important
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Why does User Experience lack credibility in some circles?
This morning I read an article in Billing & OSS World Magazine about User Experience. The title of the article was Copping the ‘Customer Experience’ Buzzword and this is how the article began… “I hate when I succumb to the use of buzzwords. So I came reluctantly to the term “customer experience.” It always struck
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Crash course in collecting user data…
.. well, next week is the big moment I’ve been waiting for. I will be going to NYC to visit customers. My main goal will be collecting customer data to use for the User Centered Design process. This will not be a contextual inquiry session, but I’m sure I will be getting a lot of
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WordPress Application vs WordPress online.. & IxDA
I read on the IxDA list about how WordPress has more functionality over other Blogging applications. I was wondering why I wasn’t getting it, and then I realized perhaps it was because I’ve been using the online version. So I accessed my web hosting company to see about installing the WordPress app onto my hosting
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Looking for a better way…
Over the past year, I have been trained in User Centered Design techniques by some of the leading names in this country. It seems the whole Contextual Design process is very time consuming. I have a hard time making users visits because I do not access to a solid repertoire of customers from my work
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Scrum, an Agile project management methodology
Today I attended a 2 hour session on Scrum. Apparently the concept of Scrum is derived from the sport Rugby. The concept is that you have a team of people working together to achieve a common goal in small iterations. The scrum process consists of periods of development known as ‘sprints’, and are moderated by