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How to Run a Design Studio in 90 Minutes
Based on a post by Al Abut on zapier.com, link here. Goals for a design studio: Create divergent ideas and convergent decisions–ie idea generation vs synthesis. Balance individual contributions with...
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10 Lean UX Secrets for Successful Strategy Sessions
Notes on a presentation by John Whelan, Brilliant Experience’s Founder and UX Lead, at the 2013 MoDevUX Conference, link here. Some methodologies: Design Thinking: Reasearch, ideate, prototype, test...
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Notes on Service Design Thinking with Marc Stickdorn and Jared Spool
Based on a podcast by Jared Spool, link here. Spool is the UI genius from User Interface Engineering; Stickdorn is a researcher, speaker, writer and entrepreneur at This Is Service Design and author of...
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Notes on LukeW’s NDC Conference Keynote
Notes on LukeW’s video from 06/14 posted to Vimeo, link here. 5 most popular sites in US, by hours per month spent on them: Facebook (6.4), Yahoo (2.2), AOL (2:15), Google (1:54) and YouTube (1:44)....
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Notes on Christine Perfetti’s UI18 Essential UX Techniques for Creating...
From Christine Perfetti’s talk at UI18 (2013), link here A brilliant user testing idea: Find some users who are actively seeking to solve the problem your product is designed to solve Give them cash to...
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Rapid Design Sprints via Google’s Design Partner Jake Knapp
Jake has refined a way of doing entire design sprints in one week cycles–and he posted all about it, link here. In general, the 5-day sprints go like this: Before the sprint: Prepare Get the people and...
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Notes on The Design Studio Method by Todd Zaki Warfel
from the Agile NYC UX conference 2012, link to Vimeo video here Selling point to prospective team members/C-level execs: You can generate 2 weeks worth of work with 1 six-hour session. You’ll probably...
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Notes on Jared M. Spool’s Mobile & UX: Inside the Eye of the Perfect Storm
Video from an unnamed conference in Amsterdam, Vimeo link here. Sturgeon’s Law: 90% of everything is crap Technology changes industries in 3 stages: TECHNOLOGY Brand new technology arrives but few know...
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Notes on Whitney Hess’ What’s Your Problem? Putting Purpose Back into Your...
From Whitney’s blog, 10-18-12, link here. Quick Take: BE OBSESSED BY THE PROBLEM, NOT THE SOLUTION! Design is both problem and solution; to create the right solution, you have to be working on the...
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Notes on Josh Seiden’s Replacing Requirements with Hypotheses
Video from Agile UX NYC 2012, link here Quick distillation of the talk: Every decision you make about your offering is a design decision Every design decision is an hypothesis stemming from unspoken...
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John Maeda and the design-centered transformation of eBay’s product strategy
John Maeda—famed designer, computer scientist and past president of RISD—joined eBay one year ago as the Chair of the new eBay Inc. Design Advisory Board. (Maeda is also Design Partner at Kleiner...
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Notes on LukeW’s Mobile Behavior and Design Trends, in which the hamburger...
From the video of LukeW at UX Immersion 2014, link here. In 2013, 50% of holiday internet shopping was done on mobile In 2010, PayPal did $750m in mobile payments. In 2013, they did $27b Yelp makes 40%...
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Designing Content for Product Experiences with Facebook’s Jonathon Colman
From the UIE virtual seminar Designing Content for Product Experiences, Dec 2014, available at http://aycl.uie.com What is a content strategist? “We plan for the creation, publication, and governance...
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Notes on 20 Top Startup Homepages Analyzed by outside the jar
From an Aug 7, 2014 blog post by Marc von Brockdorff on outside the jar, link here. Homepages are key to a website’s–and product’s–success. Marc surveyed 20 top startups and these are a summary of his...
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Notes on How Fidelity Is Reshaping Their Company to be User-Focussed with...
Based on a podcast (link here) by Karen McGrane and Ethan Marcotte, featuring Fidelity’s Steve Turbek, SVP, User Experience Design and Brian Hurley, SVP, Fidelity.com Platform Experience. Originally...
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Notes on Lean UX Lessons Learned from 12 Agile Projects
From a video of the talk of the same name, given by rangle.io founder Nick Van Weedenburg on 4/18/15, link here. Do much less upfront UX, which can create something with apocryphal authority (“the...
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Notes on Jared Spool’s Anatomy of a Design Decision
From the talk given by Jared Spool at Productcamp, 05/02/2015, link to slides here. How do we make design decisions? Here are 5 decision-making styles—all have their place, good designers strive to...
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Notes on LukeW’s There Is No Fold
from Luke Wroblewski’s blog post on 4/29/15, link here. The “fold” is an outdated concept and should be abandoned Here are the stats culled from 25m sessions: The areas just above and below the...
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Notes on UXpod’s The Five-Second Test podcast with Paul Doncaster
From Gerry Gaffney’s 9/29/14’s UXpod podcast, available on iTunes. The 10 Rules from Paul’s book ( link at bottom of post) Only use the 5-Second Test on appropriate topics–not overly complicated...
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Notes on Gerry McGovern’s Top Tasks Identification Method Explained
From a 11/12/10 blog post by Gerry McGovern on his site, link here. Gerry posted on the subject again on 5/21/15, link here. Gerry has developed a survey technique for finding top user tasks. Make a...
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