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Caplin to host an Agile UX Safari!
The Agile UX Meetup Group is heading to Caplin! Wednesday, February 15, 2012, 6:30 PM Caplin will be hosting an “Agile UX Safari” in a couple of weeks. It will be a little different to the last one at MindCandy (we don’t have a tree house in our boardroom!) but…
Read MoreThe Psychology of UX: Part 3
Hello again and welcome back to the Psychology of UX series! Today’s topic is all about MISTAKES. But before we begin let’s just define… What exactly is a mistake? “..a decision or action, or lack thereof, that we fear we’ll come to regret. They usually cause some degree of pain,…
Read MoreWhat I Learnt at SPA 2011
After weeks of keen anticipation, not to mention many long nights of preparation for my own session, SPA 2011 has now been and gone. Overall it was an excellent conference with a great group of attendees. The numerous inter-session conversations I had with fellow attendees were as enlightening as the…
Read MoreThoughtworks Live 2011 – Continuous Deployment
I spent a very informative time last Wednesday at the first day of this year’s ThoughtWorks Live event. The conference was videoed, so I guess TW will be making the conference material available in due course. Here’s my take on what was presented: Adaptive Leadership: Accelerating Organisational Agility Presented by…
Read MoreWith design agility must come design ability
Why Agile UX is Meaningless without an Agile Attitude 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…
Read MoreSPA2010 conference redux
SPA2010 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…
Read MoreThe beauty of small tests
When tests are small, a test failure means just one thing – somewhere in these ten lines of code which are being tested, there is an error. Ok, sometimes this can mean that there is an error in the test script, or a there is a failure, or change of…
Read MoreAgile – Tests = Fragile
The nature of agile projects, with lots of small releases mean that there are a lot of test runs to execute if you want to have any confidence in the code and the product. Ignoring this testing just generates projects which will fail – not may fail – will fail,…
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