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Notes on Jared Spool’s “What Goes Into Proactive UX Strategy”
Link here. UXD Chicago Meetup presented this talk on 7/21/22 Too much effort today is Reactive UX–putting out fires with tactics (interviews, usability tests, wires, Figma files) but not strategy–the...
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From Game Thinking TV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx7UAOK2prI Laura Klein, who wrote Build Better Products, gives these tips Don’t get stuck on 1 ideaStart from the customer’s “jobs to be done”...
View ArticleProduct Design and the Scientific Method
via the Game Thinking Academy, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6rDUmpCO-o 5 steps to the scientific method: HypothesisSubjectsExperimentDataConclusions Write a testable hypothesis Have clear,...
View ArticleNotes on Navigation in Enterprise Apps
(From uie.com’s All You Can Learn video library, subscription required. Posted 2016) I’ll have to come back and add my notes, just uploading some grabs as reminders! HaganNotes
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Notes on The Many Uses of Application Maps
(From uie.com’s All You Can Learn video library, subscription required. Posted in 2011 hence the image quality isn’t great) Application maps help you visualize a site’s architecture Applications maps...
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Notes on Chris Govias’ Service Design for the Public Sector
(from uie.com’s All You Can Learn library, highly-recommended subscription required) Service Design isn’t about the double diamond we all know and love: or affinity diagrams or post its or co-creation...
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Notes on Priority Guides: A Content-First Alternative to Wireframes
By Heleen van Nues and Lennard Overcame, posted on alistapart.com on 5/3/18 UXers have gotten a little complacent about creating wireframes in all instances for all things! They can be great—but they...
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Notes on Winning UX Workshops with Austin Novella
(From uie.com’s All You Can Learn library, requires highly-recommended subscription.) Frame the Question 4 things frame collaboration: What you’re doing What you’ll end up with when you’re done Why...
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Notes on Bruce McCarthy’s Roadmaps Relaunched
(From uie.com’s All You Can Learn library, requires highly-recommended subscription) In running international seminars, Bruce McCarthy asked attendees to write break-up letters with their current...
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Notes on Caroline Jarrett’s Design Tips for Surveys
(Posted on uie.com’s All You Can Learn video subscription site, link here) In this triangle, trust is probably the hardest thing to establish For mailed surveys, small payments work best to establish...
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Notes on How to Develop Goals in a Usability Test
(By Emily Grace Adiseshiah, posted to usabilitygeek.com on 10/31/137, link here) I’m only recapping part o the article, use the link to read the whole thing! Set up a framework and some goals Scope –...
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Notes on Marc Rettig’s Good Gathering
(From an 11/17 video on uie.com’s All You Can Learn subscription series, link here) Some obstacles to facilitating effective group meetings: Rather than discussion leading to debate, Marc suggests...
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Notes on Michael Smart’s The Storyboard Blueprint
(From his 10/20/17 post, link here) Before starting a sprint, the team should test user flow–separating this from storyboarding saves time and stops the storyboarding session from stalling or getting...
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Notes on Kathleen Barrett’s Power of “See One, Do One, Teach One” Design Sprints
(From two posts on uie.com, link for Part 1 here) The ACT, Inc standardized testing company hired Richard Canfield and Freshly Tilled Soil to help them innovate on their products in a risk-averse,...
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Notes on Identifying and Validating Assumptions and Mitigating Biases in User...
(From a 10/19/15 post on uxmatters.com, link here) Experts who contributed to the post: Carol Barnum—Director of User Research and Founding Partner at UX Firm; author of Usability Testing Essentials:...
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Notes on Jim Kalbach’s Using Jobs to be Done to Create High-Value Products...
(Uploaded 9/29/17 to UX Strat’s Slide Share site, link here) Jobs to be Done (JTBD) focuses on why people “hire” a product or service—usually to progress towards a goal or as part of the process of...
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Notes on Benjamin Wilkins’ Thinking in Symbols for Universal Design
(Posted to Rethink’s YouTube channel on 9/7/17, link here) UXers at Airbnb have to design for a multiplicity of international platforms, so they have come up with their own DLS (design language system)...
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Recommended Quick Read: Jake Rocheleau’s SaaS Interface Design
Not writing notes on what are essentially notes, just check out the link for some great examples of SaaS design: designmodo.com/SaaS-interface-design
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Notes on Hagan River’s Enterprise Apps on Small Screens
(From uie.com’s All You Can Learn subscription video series, link here) UX practitioners have spent the last several years refining responsive design for consumer sites and some standard elements have...
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Notes on Krystal Higgins’ Onboarding for the Long Run
(From uie.com’s All You Can Learn library, link here) Onboarding is too often thought of only from the perspective of a first time user—not taking into account that there’ll be iterations based on user...
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