Here here Ron! Remote teamwork may be possible but it certainly isn't ideal. Close collaboration without co-location is a compromise, sometimes an essential...
Hi, Background: I am a Technical Writer helping our User Experience specialist at a healthcare software company. The company is moving from start-up types of...
I've got an opening for an interaction designer on my team at Corbis in Seattle. Corbis is Bill Gates' privately held image licensing and creative services...
... Esther, This all sounds pretty good. Delivery and use is the necessary moment of truth when you really learn how well you did. In an Agile context I often...
[Please excuse the self promotion here] It's very late notice, but I'd like to see if we can put a few more people in the room. I'm teaching a two day public...
Monday 19th & Tuesday 20th November 2007, London, UK XP Day 7 is a two day international conference for anyone who wants to create software better. XP Day...
My team is tossing around the idea of incorporating personas into our normal set of deliverables. I'm curious to hear other's experience with personas in an...
... Great. I like to have one page summaries pinned on the wall next to the story board. ... [snip] My flash of the blindingly obvious was to use them as the...
Hi, I am currently working to identify the core values of UCD and agile. I do this as part of my master's thesis. The fields have a lot in common, but the more...
Hi Jeff, Personas can be of tremendous value in helping the whole team remember who they are building the application for. As you suggest, they are a useful ...
I think this is an excellent project. I think spelling out the values of both disciplines will lead to more understanding between practitionners of both. I...
[snippet from what I posted on the IdX list for folk to disagree with :-) ] ... [snip] For me these don't seem very "core" to UCD. A UCD practitioner would ...
So far, the developers I've worked with don't seem to care much about gaining empathy for the end-user. Not to say I haven't tried. To some degree they care,...
Sort of. We have a modified RUP/Agile process where use cases are still king but there are plenty of opportunities for face-to-face for the group and the...
... the select case where they are being used for ... elsewhere. Benefit vs. resource consumption. A ... about the end user thru the flow) has as much impact ...
Yes, several times and that has been highly successful for marketing myself internally and ensuring good usability practices are enforced as well as help me...
... You were asking about developing empathy for the end user. I think it's a lot easier to develop empathy for a persona (i.e. a model of an actual person or...
... That matches my experience so far. From what I've seen, developers respond better to either abstract roles or real-world data. My theory is that since they...
Again, I'm just one guy for an entire organization that does 100% of all its own apps - internal and external. And the teams we have are already stressed with...
Hi Jens, Nice to see someone is working in this space...what is your final thesis going to be focused on? I also had trouble associating the 'core' values of...
Brian, You may need to use some UML-speak to get through to the developers. As in: "The actor in this use case is the claims recorder, whom we've referred to ...
Hi, Brian. I'm curious about the context for your statement below: ... Do you have a product manager or other person acting as the representative of the...
... project where as (even with marketing people) personas are "nice to haves". Aren't personas a form of user feedback? Personas are based on real world ...
... details, ... problems, tech ... more detail ... I agree completely. I like personas and having them can be very helpful, but only if they provide useful...
I think it is important to develop the persona fully to the detail level. However, that being said, there is an advantage to leaving out those details when...
Hi Jens I have worked on the agile/ucd topic for my masters ... well. Those are good lists --- just a little long don't you think? If you're really talking...
[Also as posted on IxDA] You are right my values are not "core". I used the wrong expression. What I am looking for is the first level of values, the ones that...
If one has the luxury (or mind-numbing task, depending on your perspective) of having a UCD / UXD / UED specify all the text for all the error messages, as...
Just to add something else to the discussion of Personas, I've started using them in a different way. My company has decided to redesign it's website for ...
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