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- gSchool's Experience Architect Program
Galvanize and EffectiveUI have partnered up to offer an intensive, six-month training program to create experience architects. This is the perfect course for that person you know who is trying to break into UX. ...
Event - Beth Koloski - March 08, 2013 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- The Complexity of Simplicity
Every project I've worked on in my 17-year career has had one thing in common. At some point someone says, "It should be simple." But what does "simple" actually mean? People can always tell when something is simple, uncomplicated, elegant, not ...
Article - Jay Selway - March 05, 2013 - 7 comments - 0 attachments
- Five User Experience Lessons from Laura Dern
Some lessons must be learned through excruciating pain . Others can be delivered through simple analogies. Happily, these less-grueling lessons are often part of development processes and strategies within human factors engineering and user e ...
Article - Steve Tengler - February 22, 2013 - 1 comment - 0 attachments
- Lead Your UX Team like Phil Jackson
Leading a team of talented UX professionals is no easy task. Managing all that creative energy and the egos that go with it; figuring out ways to give everyone their desired level of input while keeping it relative to the project at hand; and having ...
Article - Jamal Jackson - February 19, 2013 - 5 comments - 0 attachments
- Fostering a Culture of Innovation
Trying to create innovative and impactful new products or services in the realm of user-centered design is a great challenge. It requires answers to a number of tricky questions: Who are the audiences that need a new product? What gap will it fill for t ...
Article - Megan Geyer - January 23, 2013 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- 4 Reasons Your UX Investment Isn’t Paying Off
“Every dollar spent on UX brings in between $2 and $100 dollars in return.” We all know the business case for doing user experience work: investing upfront in making products easy to use really pays off. It reduces project risk, cost, and ti ...
Article - Hilary Little - January 22, 2013 - 12 comments - 0 attachments
- When UX Research Begins, Become the Voice of Reason
UX research begins when either a stakeholder asks for it or a researcher suggests it. When a stakeholder asks you to conduct a study, it is a good sign—the stakeholder realizes that answers to his or her questions lie with ...
Article - Tomer Sharon - January 17, 2013 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Stanislavski and the Reluctant Stakeholder
I often reach a point in large project where I wonder why nobody sat the decision makers down at the beginning of the process and really questioned their ability to make empathetic decisions. By this stage, selective user evidence has been disre ...
Article - Tracy Brown - January 15, 2013 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Re-Introducing Page Description Diagrams
There’s no such thing as a “standard” client or project in a typical agency setting, because every business has its own specific goals—not to mention the goals of its users. Because of this, we’re constantly seeking ways to improve our processes and bet ...
Article - Colin Butler, Andrew Wirtanen - January 09, 2013 - 10 comments - 0 attachments
- Getting Fruitful Collaboration Instead of Stale Groupthink
The value of bringing people with different perspectives together to work a problem is readily accepted by most. The business of making websites, software and other technical systems is too complex for an individual to execute in isolation. No surprise, ...
Article - Gail Swanson - January 08, 2013 - 1 comment - 0 attachments