Good morning, everyone. My name's Doug Gorman and I'm the QA manager at Creative Artists Agency. My team is beginning to take on usability as part of what we...
Hi Doug You might want to consider creating a browse able library of UI components. For instance you might have a standard for signing up for a service, but...
Hi Doug In addition to what I said earlier on creating UI library, I can't stress enough that there is no substitute for putting your applications in-front of ...
In addition to what I said earlier on creating a UI library, I can't stress enough that there is no substitute for putting your applications in-front of target...
Hi, Doug. Since you asked here, I'm presuming this question has some Agile angle. The broadness of your question brings me back to the Agile manifesto, and in...
Hi Doug, I¹ve never responded to post to this group before. Great book to pick up some best practice standards for ³icons² or not, ³text links² or not,...
... I think that's a pretty poor rule of thumb. Icons have their place, particularly in text-heavy environments where a little bit of color and shape can help...
Hi Jo, I'm about to create such a library for my company and I'm evaluating different options for the actual implementation. What do you suggest? A wiki? What...
Hi Everyone, We've got a great event lined up for our next Agile Experience Design Meetup on Wed. Oct. 14. Ed Sussman, CEO of Buzzr, and Karen McGrane, ...
Hi all, We're currently seeking sessions for the 2010 BCS SPA conference, to be held in London next May (http://www.spaconference.org). I hope you might...
I absolutely agree that end user feedback is almost always a better driver than our own internal opinions. I'm curious about your thoughts on when and how to...
Thanks for the details, David! Doug's comment made me wonder something in specific, so let me ask about that directly. If your developers are asking QA for...
... [snip] I'd second Michael's recommendation of Luke's book. A useful read - especially if you've not got a usability/UX background. It's tricky one to sum...
Hi Doug, ... You have to be slightly careful here that this doesn't become an excuse for not making informed decisions about the products user experience in...
Interested in Agile? Want to hear Martin Fowler speak? Join me at the end of October for Agile East, being held in Philadelphia and New York. There is a great...
The answer is always "it depends" (on business goals, users, constraints), it kind of sounds to me like you are looking for a pattern library? I would...
[Apologies if you get multiple copies.] I'm very excited about the User Interface 14 Conference that's coming up, November 1-3 here in Boston, MA. We have...
Thought folk here might be interested in this. ... [snip] ... [snip] Cheers, Adrian -- http://quietstars.com - twitter.com/adrianh - delicious.com/adrianh...
Dear Adrian! I was going to post the Agile Usability/UCD survey results to this group by today evening but you already posted it. Thank you very much! I...
... [snip] Interesting - and matches my experiences. I think many design folk have already latched on to the fact that parallelism works. For example you have...
William, I agree testing multiple designs is a great way to iterate on an idea. You may be interested in an upcoming prototyping book by Todd Zaki Warfel ...
Hi all - I'm new to agile development and I was wondering if anyone has a good boilerplate template they could share that identifies and defines the roles on...
