Any user experience designer worth their salt takes the needs of the company they’re serving into account and adapts their approach accordingly — identifying the appropriate process, methods and tools to get the job done. This has been the case for as long as information architecture and interaction design have been in practice. Rigid methodology [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Methodology'
Why I detest the term “Lean UX”
February 27th, 2011 · 17 Comments · Design, Startups, User Experience
Tags:Argument·Design·Methodology·Pain·Startups·User Experience
Designing for Startups in Smashing Magazine
February 26th, 2011 · No Comments · Articles, Design, User Experience
A big thanks goes out to Andrew Maier whose article “Designing for Startups: How to Deliver the Message Across” in Smashing Magazine included some thoughts from a blog post I wrote a few months ago titled “A Plan of Action.” In it he features my three approaches to design: Reactive, Preactive, and Proactive — the [...]
Whit Hour – Week 21
December 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Whit Hour
Thank you so much to the ~28 people who showed up for the twenty-first week of Whit Hour — my weekly one-hour video chat to answer any and all of your questions about user experience, consulting, and whatever else you throw at me. Tune in every Monday night from 10-11pm Eastern Time at http://www.livestream.com/whithour. Whit [...]
Tags:Blogging·Books·Consulting·Methodology·New York·Speaking·Startups·User Experience·Whit Hour
A Plan of Action
November 22nd, 2010 · 15 Comments · Strategy
“For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to finish it?” — Luke 14:28 It’s not every day I quote the Bible. All the rarer that I quote from the New Testament, given the fact that I’m Jewish. But I happened [...]
Tags:Methodology·Realizations
Whit Hour – Week 19
October 19th, 2010 · No Comments · Whit Hour
Thank you so much to the ~26 people who showed up for the nineteenth week of Whit Hour — my weekly one-hour video chat to answer any and all of your questions about user experience, consulting, and whatever else you throw at me. Tune in every Monday night from 10-11pm Eastern Time at http://www.livestream.com/whithour. Whit [...]
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