I've written a post for my company's external design blog, that might be of interest to this list. "...my co-workers and I spent several hours considering the...
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Jared Spool
jmspool
Jul 11, 2009 1:51 pm
Hi John, This is interesting, but seems to me to be a bit more complex than it needs to be. Sounds to me that what you're saying in the blog post...
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John Schrag
jvschrag
Jul 11, 2009 2:40 pm
There is more to it --- specifically, there's a particular horror story or two for each item on the list, which will be talked about in future blog posts by...
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Russell Wilson
ixdes
Jul 11, 2009 8:05 pm
I think this is great! Ironically, we are just kicking off our own effort to document our design guidelines to frame how we work both as a team and with other...
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Jared Spool
jmspool
Jul 12, 2009 3:31 am
... I think that's true of all the items on your list though: Validated Data over Expert Opinion Quality of Data over Ease of Data Collection Complete...
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juliebooth36
Jul 12, 2009 9:45 am
John, thanks for this. I am raptly interested in your real-world experience; as you say, I've heard a lot from people who know what "well-researched" and who...
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dina salah
dina_salah_e...
Jul 12, 2009 9:45 am
Hi, I am aware of the wide spectrum of proposals, techniques, approaches for improving agile usability, however, i believe that most of the assessements were...
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William Pietri
william_pietri
Jul 12, 2009 10:00 am
... Could you say more about your goal in asking those questions? I have seen a lot of teams, and I don't think I've ever seen one where a team has been helped...
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Larry Constantine
foruse1
Jul 12, 2009 10:36 am
Jared introduced into this thread the simplification: "Well-researched user experiences over group-think-produced feature requirements." Later the list was...
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Todd Zaki Warfel
toddwarfel
Jul 12, 2009 11:18 am
... I took Jared's dichotomy list as "strive for A instead of B." While quality data may not always be difficult, the focus should be on obtaining quality data...
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Todd Zaki Warfel
toddwarfel
Jul 12, 2009 11:33 am
... This clearly shows you have a misconception of what user experience research is. Unfortunately, there's a lot of bad research going on in the UX field by...
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John Schrag
jvschrag
Jul 12, 2009 11:51 am
Larry, I'm sorry that you didn't read the original article that started this discussion. It would have saved you some time. The list of "dichotomies" came...
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Jared Spool
jmspool
Jul 12, 2009 3:10 pm
... And, for the record, I wasn't stating that I agreed with this statement. I was just checking to see if I understood what John had originally tried to say...
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Larry Constantine
foruse1
Jul 12, 2009 10:28 pm
... (although it is over-rated and even over-used, but I would never say that because anyone who does is clearly deranged or evil or both) < ... research is. <...
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Jared Spool
jmspool
Jul 12, 2009 10:50 pm
... Oh, go ahead and tar me. I haven't had a good tarring in a really long time. ... Jared...
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Austin Govella
agovella
Jul 12, 2009 11:02 pm
... Dina, The effectiveness of any given method for any project is largely driven by the organization's design literacy. And then it's also largely driven by...
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Larry Constantine
foruse1
Jul 12, 2009 11:18 pm
... this discussion. It would have saved you some time. < I'm sorry, too, but then I don't always have the time, opportunity, or bandwidth to read everything...
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Larry Constantine
foruse1
Jul 12, 2009 11:39 pm
Thanks and good for you Jared. --Larry Constantine, IDSA, ACM Fellow Director, Lab:USE Laboratory for Usage-centered Software Engineering (www.labuse.org) ...
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Ron Jeffries
ronaldejeffries
Jul 13, 2009 12:03 am
... It seems to me very unlikely that Larry Constantine is under a misconception about what user experience research is. I'm submitting a defect report on you...
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Todd Zaki Warfel
toddwarfel
Jul 13, 2009 1:10 am
... Herein lies one of the reasons that Agile has such a bad name in the UX community—the expressed attitude that user research (what I refer to as design)...
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George Dinwiddie
gdinwiddie
Jul 13, 2009 2:03 am
... Are you equating Larry Constantine with the Agile community? That really is quite funny. Todd, I get the feeling that you know nothing about Larry's...
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Todd Zaki Warfel
toddwarfel
Jul 13, 2009 2:20 am
... I'm equating Larry's expressed perspective with an expressed perspective from the agile community and one of the reasons so many UX practitioners snuff off...
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Larry Constantine
foruse1
Jul 13, 2009 8:17 am
Todd, I don't know where to begin. No one here in this forum, and certainly not me, has ever implied (as far as I can recall) that user research provides ...
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Jeremy Kriegel
sonojerarc
Jul 13, 2009 3:18 pm
Larry's original post about the magic of "both/and"; vs. "either/or", as well as some of the comments that followed reminded me of one of my own perspectives on...
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Adrian Howard
ajh65537
Jul 13, 2009 4:27 pm
... ... and type of project, and kind of problem, and the people on the team and ... ... I'm also beginning to think that there is a pattern language evolving,...
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Anders Ramsay
andersramsay
Jul 13, 2009 5:15 pm
Hi Dina, As William and others said, talking about a "best" method is probably not that fruitful. Similar to the saying about politics, all methods are local....
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Todd Zaki Warfel
toddwarfel
Jul 13, 2009 5:34 pm
... Have "no reason to believe" while not exactly the same, is quite interchangeable with "can't imagine." Looks like hair splitting. You can blame the...
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Jeremy Kriegel
sonojerarc
Jul 13, 2009 5:56 pm
I think there is an assumption in the prior comments that I'd like to call out. It is that you and your team are familiar with UX practices as used in ...
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Ron Jeffries
ronaldejeffries
Jul 13, 2009 6:12 pm
Hello, Todd. I am possibly the nastiest person you or this group has ever seen. However, I'm handing my pinball crown to you. You have consistently ...
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Jeremy Kriegel
sonojerarc
Jul 13, 2009 6:26 pm
so you're no longer the Bally table king? jer 'digging up the original Tommy soundtrack' kriegel "Be well, do good work & keep in touch." - Garrison Keillor...
