... I don't believe that's true in most cases. The "uniformity" always exists at some level ("we're all made of meat" - http:// www.terrybisson.com/meat.html...
Hi everyone out there! I'm currently designing a team that will have to build an off-the-shelf application. I don't have much knowledge on usability, but I...
Alan, A good place to look for usability support is on the UPA's Consultant Directory, http://www.upassoc.org/people_pages/consultants_directory/index.html. ...
You could post a call to the Discuss list hosted by the Interaction Design Association. See www.ixda.org. You could also post a call to the CHI-JOBS list. ...
Hi Alan, It's possible you might find some people here: http://www.worldusabilityday.org/ I see some people from Brazil so you may have luck if someone from...
Question, take 2... Have any of you worked with/heard of a set of tools for doing application life cycle software development that you liked? You know, usual...
Hi everybody: Recently, the agile community propagates the use of automated acceptance tests to drive software development. This approach is called executable...
I've been creating high-fidelity prototypes using HTML and CSS for a client PC application. The system architect says they are moving toward using Windows...
I don't think I'm the right person to answer your question but I think my experience is somehow related to the problem you are mentioning. HTML and CSS is good...
Hi, Background: I am in the unique position of working at a company that is growing rapidly and is ready to establish a software development process (feels...
... Card sorting is very useful for creating categorization schemes, and for identifying the way people think about the relationships between various elements....
Esther wrote: 1. Has anyone used card sorting to define a business process? If so, was it helpful? Having helped many companies define design/development...
Larry Constantine
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Dec 8, 2006 4:06 pm
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... Hi Esther, A couple of thoughts... Beware trying to define your process entirely up front to accomodate anything and everything that comes up during...
... One critical question is: do development efforts span time zones - and by that I mean "concept to cash" - the ideas about what to build and the actual...
... In that case I encourage you to read an article I wrote for the ASIS&T Bulletin in 2005: "StUX - integrating IA deliverables in a software development...
(responding to Esther) ... I'm of the opinion that most attempts at agile that fail do so not because the team are not discovering the problems that need ...
I was recently in a phone conference with two of my main client's managers-responsible-for-usability. That was despite my protestations that I was totally...
Ron Jeffries has an interview on InfoQ (http://www.infoq.com/interviews/jeffries-running-tested-features) that is nothing short of brilliant in its elegance in...
Larry Constantine
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Dec 11, 2006 10:24 pm
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... Unfortunately I don't think there are books that are as directly applicable to agile ux work as those are to agile testing.... oh for some spare time and a...
Hello, Larry. On Monday, December 11, 2006, at 5:06:38 PM, you ... Thank you for those very kind words, Larry. I consider praise from you to be high praise...
... Ron, I want to learn the secret for your constant success. Really. I have a kind of sympathy with Larry. I have seen a few teams, which believed they were...
I am new to this board, but not new to team building and tckling wicked problems. I might have a couple of things to offer here: 1) Features > Benefits >...
... I'd certainly add Jeff Patton's papers at <http://agileproductdesign.com/writing/index.html> He has a chapter (?) in Cockburn's _Crystal Clear_, which I...
... Good point. And Jeff's new blog too. (I was fixated on paper books for some reason - sorry) I've a whole bunch of stuff bookmarked in delicious under...
This is more for the upfront end of the process than the back end. Holtzblatt, Wendell, and Wood wrote "Rapid Contextual Design" about trying to fit user...
... When it comes to the explicit intersection between usability and agile there aren't many resources. As I remember, Jeff is writing a book on that...
I second this recommendation. Karen Holtzblatt recently visited Korea (with Don Norman) for an open lecture. She was very confident of her way of doing work. I...
On 13 Dec 2006, at 16:12, June Kim wrote: [snip] ... [snip] There's an agile-toolkit podcast with Lynn, Jeff & Rebecca Wirfs- Brock that's worth a listen too: ...
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