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Agile UX – Define, Identify, Develop

November 30, 2011 by rick

I recently read an article from Jared Spool, of User Interface Engineering, that was written as if he were writing about my personal experience. The article, Essential UX Layers for Agile and Lean Design teams, identifies key concepts I have found helpful with agile UX…

  • Define a big picture scenario that describes a holistic product experience the team is designing for. This is useful for extracting user stories necessary for sprint planning.
  • Identify a set of UX design principals that guide design decisions. If the principals are simple and easy to understand, the agile team members can easily adopt and promote these principals throughout the design and development process.
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APQC Process Classification Framework

January 18, 2011 by rick

American Productivity & Quality Center Process Classification Framework
For those who are involved with Product Development, the Process Classification Framework is a must have reference to ensure your organization has the necessary processes in place to succeed. The Process Classification Framework or PCF is a cross industry product development lifecycle standard that has been developed by an open source community of product development professionals and the APQC (American Productivity & Quality Center).

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Institutionalizing User Centered Product Design – Understand Your Audience

August 1, 2010 by rick

When developing a strategy to institutionalize user-centered product design within an organization, it is important to understand your audience. There are many different roles within an organization however, when it comes to product development there are 2 main groups you need to work with when institutionalizing user centered product design.

The first group includes those individuals who Read more »

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Direction, Alignment, and Discipline

July 7, 2010 by rick

This may sound obvious but I have to say it. Companies cannot succeed without clear, easy to understand business objectives. Business objectives provide direction. Easily understood and highly socialized objectives are fundamental to efficient and effective operation.

So how do companies clearly define business objectives and ensure all development and operational efforts align directly under those objectives? It’s easier than you think. All the company needs is a D.A.D. Read more »

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Herding Cats with The KJ Technique

June 18, 2010 by rick

Herding Cats

Getting everyone in a n organization to work together can feel like an impossible task. Experienced experts have referred to Read more »

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Sketch board a better design approach

November 1, 2009 by rick

I recently attended a sketch boarding workshop with Leah Buley from Adaptive Path. Sketch boarding is a collaborative design technique developed to capture concepts, iterate through lo-fidelity comps and work toward more detailed interfaces. A sketch-boarding sprint could be as short as 5 days which works well with agile development teams.

Sketchboarding combines…

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