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Designers, Excellence Is Not Accidental

  • Agile and Iterative Process, Business UX Leaders, Design, Personal and Professional Development, Strategy, The rise of design, UX Education

Excellence is deliberate.

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Designers, Excellence Is Not Accidental
  • The author speculates on reaching excellence in design backing the arguments with his own experience of delivering product strategy for Internet and Screen Accountability software Covenant Eyes.
  • Excellence in design is not something that comes to you naturally; it is deliberate and comes with effort.
  • Excellence starts with mastering design skills through learning, making mistakes, and, eventually, making a habit of putting to work everything you’ve learned.
  • In the pursuit of excellence, intelligent execution is an essential step. The author advises that you should always take into account the environment in which the plan is to be implemented. Also, you should have a thorough awareness of the framework and the organization you are working with.
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Chaos, Derrida and Pigeons: Things I Learnt From Dave Snowden

  • Accessibility, Agile and Iterative Process, Behavioral Science, Business UX Leaders, Customer Experience, Design, Design Theory, Usability, UX Education, UX Magazine, UX World Changing Ideas

To hear Dave Snowden talk at Design Thinking Ireland was to be treated to an avalanche of fascinating and deeply interconnected ideas like no other. The talk also seriously overwhelmed my sketchnoting abilities.

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Chaos, Derrida and Pigeons: Things I Learnt From Dave Snowden
  • The article covers a talk Dave Snowden gave at Designing Thinking Ireland telling about his developed Cynefin framework — a powerful decision-making framework that attempts to give us tools to absorb uncertainty, create resilience, and thrive in a complex world.
  • The authors unpacks the following ideas:
    • Consciousness is a distributed function
    • Dark chocolate consumption and Nobel laureates
    • Derrida and aporia
    • Distributive ethnography
    • Embracing ambiguity
    • Exaptation
    • Falcon and the pigeon
    • Frozen Two and the adjacent possible
    • Order, complexity, and chaos
    • Sense-making
    • Triopticon
    • Wisdom of Crowds
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User stories vs use cases: how they stack up

  • Agile and Iterative Process, Project Management, Prototypes, Requirements and Specifications, Research Tools and Software, Rich Internet applications, User Acceptance Testing

Just what are the differences between user stories and use cases? Don’t they have the same goals? But, user stories and use cases are not quite the same.

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In Conversation with Alfonso de la Nuez

  • Agile and Iterative Process, Business UX Leaders, Business Value and ROI, Design, Design Tools and Software, Enterprise Products, Information Design and Architecture, Internal Company Dynamics, Interviews, Marketing and Brand, Prototypes, Remote Research, Research Methods and Techniques, Research Tools and Software, Software as a Service, Technology, The Business of UX, Usability, User Reported Feedback

We talk with UserZoom CEO Alfonso de la Nuez about the importance of user testing, how to recruit panelists, and why research is an inspiration.

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Hi-Fi Prototyping

  • Agile and Iterative Process, Business UX Leaders, Consumer products, Customer Experience, Design, Design Tools and Software, Development, Direct Observation Research, Enterprise Products, Interaction Design, Interface and Navigation Design, Motion and Animation, Product design, Prototypes, Technology, Usability, User Reported Feedback

Prototyping facilitates rapid iteration and fail-fast (and learn-fast) experimentation, and helps the whole product team push technical limits.

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