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Persona Power

  • Business Value and ROI, Consumer products, Customer Experience, Design, Design Tools and Software, Empathy, Ethnography, Human factors, Interaction Design, Internal Company Dynamics, Personal and Professional Development, Personas, Product design, Project Management, Psychology and Human Behavior, Requirements and Specifications, Research Tools and Software, Team Dynamics, Technology, Usability

Looking at personas, goals, and scenarios relative to the characters, plot, and objectives of a novel or movie can help designers avoid self-referential thinking.

Article by Shlomo Goltz
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Go Ahead, White-Label Your Services

  • Business Value and ROI, Design, Development, Employee Experience, Employment and Hiring, Google, Government and Public Services, Marketing and Brand, Personal and Professional Development, Product design, Project Management, Research Methods and Techniques, Social Networking, Team Dynamics, Technology, Usability, User Acceptance Testing, User Reported Feedback, Vendor-Client Relationships, Working With Stakeholders

While controversial among freelancers, white-labeling your services to a company can open you up to a whole new world of opportunity.

Article by Cory Lebson
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Revisiting Proto-Personas for Executive Alignment

  • Business Value and ROI, Design, Design Tools and Software, Internal Company Dynamics, Personal and Professional Development, Personas, Product design, Project Management, Research Methods and Techniques, Research Tools and Software, Team Dynamics, Usability, Working With Stakeholders

Modifying Jeff Gothelf’s proto-persona process reveals another method of working with clients to establish executive alignment on target users.

Article by Brent Summers
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Throwing Light on Dark UX with Design Awareness

  • Business Value and ROI, Design, Design Theory, Development, E-commerce, Facebook, Flow and Immersion, Information Design and Architecture, Interaction Design, Interface and Navigation Design, Marketing and Brand, New and Emerging Technologies, Personal and Professional Development, Psychology and Human Behavior, Research Methods and Techniques, Strategy, Technology, Visual Design

Users and designers can work to develop their Design Awareness in order to avoid the manipulative patterns associated with Dark UX.

Article by Marc Miquel
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Persona Grata

  • Business Value and ROI, Customer Experience, Design, Design Tools and Software, Emotion, Empathy, Human factors, Interaction Design, Marketing and Brand, Personal and Professional Development, Personas, Product design, Project Management, Requirements and Specifications, Research Methods and Techniques, Strategy, Technology, Usability, Vendor-Client Relationships, Working With Stakeholders

A divisive tool among practitioners, personas can bring the perspective of your end users into the design process and help build consensus among stakeholders.

Article by Shlomo Goltz
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The Eight Most Common Mistakes Made on UX Design Projects

  • Agile and Iterative Process, Analytics and Tracking, Business Value and ROI, Design, Development, Direct Observation Research, Empathy, Internal Company Dynamics, Marketing and Brand, Personal and Professional Development, Personas, Presentations, Product design, Project Management, Research Methods and Techniques, Team Dynamics, Technology, Vendor-Client Relationships, Working With Stakeholders

Arrogance and seven other common mistakes can easily derail a design project. Avoid them all.

Article by Joseph Dickerson
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