In the January Catalyze webcast, Design Thinking Catalyst Linda Yaven will give a presentation titled "You, Me and Pictures: A Snapshot of Making Thinking...
http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2008/01/03/amazon_kindle_a_new_experience_channel.php Kindle is interesting because in theory they do a lot of...
Journal of HCI Vistas Jan 2008 Personas – as part of a user-centered innovation process ... In this case the anthropology study were analyzed separately and...
In the top nav of a webpage, what is the web standard for the order of information? Is "About Us" supposed to be at the end of the top nav options, or made...
[ok, no one said it was] Today you get the benefit of a quick post, since I don't have time to turn this into a blog entry. This is two related stories in one....
Experiencedesigners-- Early bird pricing for MX: Managing Experience Through Creative Leadership ends on Sunday. http://adaptivepath.com/events/2008/apr I...
Peter, Thanks for the invite, I'll be sure to get one or two of the team over there & try and make it myself, just need to figure out some client travel. How...
Web Standard? I don't believe I've ever seen those two words joined together before? Taking a task-oriented approach will help you determine how important,...
I think it would depend on who the "us" is - sometimes you don't really care, do you? Other times it's critical. If you are very relationship-based, like an...
What's the task your users are trying to accomplish? They really don't care "about us" so much as they care about finding a product, service, or the answer to...
This question, like most questions of layout and exposure of functions, depends primarily on the nature of task performance by users, precisely as Larry...
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This question, like most questions of layout and exposure of functions, depends primarily on the nature of task performance by users, precisely as Larry...
Per Brandon's rant about the very real issues with 'stuff', which multiplied are surely major factors to the detriment of the overall GDP. Brandon is like a...
Catalyze Webcast Series Designing a Sure-Fire Stakeholder Communication Strategy Featuring Barbara Carkenord, President of B2T Training Date - Thursday,...
Related to productivity, check out Enso -- which changes the concept and even plane of an operating system 'utility'. The video explains -- see "Play Enso...
I'll soon be offering a unique and exciting course via UCSC Extension in Silicon Valley entitled, "User Experience Managers and Executives Speak." The course...
...And then there are companies like Google that have no call center, let alone a coherent strategy for dealing with product performance and version upgrades,...
For a late-summer tour by European designers and client companies, I¹m looking to identify approximately a dozen leading innovation consultancies on the US...
[...per Bob's Rant] Ah, but Gmail is free. Try lodging a complaint to Yahoo! when you PAY for an account. Everyone has countless stories. That's why I will...
I'm going to challenge your statement a bit, if nothing else but to stir up some interesting conversation. True opportunities ARE in innovation, but can still...
Ah, but then Larry, you're now talking "Design Thinking". And yes, the innovation is in answering the right question...but we also have to honor the way most...
My early experiences in Denmark, where our project deliberately brings business innovators and designers together, so far don¹t support the notion that...
The February 19th NH UPA meeting will be a highly engaging and informative night with 4 different 10-minute talks by 4 different speakers. The "10-minute talk"...
I'm hoping Bob was attempting to reinforce what I said, rather than take issue with it. If it's the latter, then he (and likely others) truly misunderstand...
If there were more of me [and there are out there, just not that happen to be in this group] I would give Paula's assessment a standing ovation. I don't think...
I get the impression that you read my post as somehow excluding visiting with current clients. I never intended to suggest such a thing. I merely was...
What you describe seems very much like the typical Ready, Fire, Aim approach I see many companies fail with. I read your description of innovation as...
On 6 Feb 2008, at 14:07, Larry Marine wrote: [snip] ... [snip] Me too. I'm somewhat surprised how many organisations see looking at their users as a one-off...
[Love this conversation] Key comments...let's start a list of axioms: things by which, what we do, can be more successful. Larry: ...assume that the client has...