About Duncan I design the real time web UX.
It’s a strange turn of phrase, but as we do more and more online keeping tabs on everything and segregating areas of interest is becoming a more and more frustrating and complicated task when using the tabs within a web browser. (More …)
This is an interesting post by Anders Ramsay.
I definitely think design agility is an important skill, I think it goes without saying that if you do not have agility then you are not agile, but I also think that design ability is also just as important for agile teams.
Sometimes when we need to produce ‘presentable’ wireframes to show a client complex interactions in an animatic we’ll spend some time polishing them up; but lately we have just been scanning in rough sketches. It makes it much more obviously ‘unfinished’ and definitely leads to looser design discussions.
Often when we need to resolve design issues that come-up ‘in sprint’ we will have a quick chat with the team and produce a 10 second sketch to facilitate the design solution, job done. This is design agility to me. It does depend on the development team having at least some design ability though – luckily at Caplin our devs are all cool techreatives at heart.
I missed the start of SPA2010 on Sunday, I knew it was going to be a heavy week and I needed some time for the family 
Sorry Phil/Adam.
Monday started with the opening plenary, I think it was good, I’m sure it was… it’s just that I was a bit distracted thinking about our impending workshop – would it work out?
So… We’re all set for our ‘Persona Driven Development Workshop’ at SPA2010, right?
OK – well… nearly. Sarah has done a really nice presentation. But… the workshop materials are not entirely done done.
I’m not panicking too much yet – after all there are four three weeks to go!
SPA 2010 (Software Practice Advancement 2010)16-19 May
The British Computer Society, Covent Garden London
Check out this great article from Dominique Leca over at UX Magazine: The Impossible Bloomberg Makeover
It includes some concepts from IDEO who submitted a redesign proposal back in 2007…
The comments are also interesting and focus on the fact that to an outsider Bloomberg might ‘look’ ugly, but to the actual ‘Bloomberg Users’ who are focussed on the ‘data and information patterns on screen’ they almost don’t even see the GUI.
The UX team at Caplin are always looking for ways to enhance our Usage Centered Design (UCD) process and tools because we realise the importance of UCD in helping us to uncover the pain points of our users.
When designing/refining application ‘flow’ one of the tools we use is a Narrative Journey Map (NJM).
This is a mashup inspired by other UCD techniques combined into something we find very useful. In this post I’m going to outline the NJM process we currently use – (we are always experimenting and evolving this technique). We will also be exploring the NJM process in detail as part of our upcoming Persona Driven Development workshop at SPA2010.
Livescribe is a tool I’ve been using for a year or so now within the UX team here at Caplin, to capture notes from design meetings and ongoing UCD contextual inquiries. It’s a great tool and is also discreet – useful in contextual scenarios where setting up a video recorder would be too intrusive.
Personas in the driving seat? our workshop @ the 2010 SPA conference in May http://www.spaconference.org/spa2010/sessions/session276.html ‘Persona-driven development – can it work for you?’ Has now been accepted!
In Tales from a Trading Desk, this week Matt Davey has picked up on an interesting article about UX and ROI.
I like this sound bite:
Also, if you create great UX it will always lead to better user satisfaction, joy and happiness – and it’s a well know fact that happier users are – better and more motivated and productive workers.
My take on what makes a great UX…
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