…e on specifics, technologists can advise on feasibility, and things just become more comfortable overall. None of this proves that collaboration is bad, I’m setting up a straw man here after all. But I do think it deserves examination. Of course, it’s next to impossible to compare the difference between one design technique and another in anything like a controlled manner. Nevertheless, my suspicion is that collaboration works best when you have a…
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…ng a hotel to stay in. Choosing the right hotel requires a number of quite complicated things to be considered. But which things you place the most emphasis on depends very much on the context of why you are booking a hotel in a given location or time. If price is the only consideration you have, then you’re lucky. The hotel star rating; the distance of the hotel to where you want to spend your time; the opinions of other people; photos; the exist…
I’ve had a bit of a realisation about the way I come up with design ideas that I’d not considered before (see below), but first, an important aside. Many people in my field mistake the activity of discovering and refining their own design processes as being a signal that they should recommend these processes noisily…
…eripheral vision. I was disappointed, therefore, to discover during user research at the end of last year (lab tests in London, Rome, Dallas, Sao Paulo and Shanghai) that nobody appeared to notice it. We didn’t do any eye-tracking in that study, but I was hoping that at least one or two people might either remark on the fact that header allowed them to sort at any time, or perhaps inquire about the loyalty scheme. But not only was it not noticed b…
Ah, synchronicity. No, not the 80’s album by The Police, but the fact that I was recently thinking about “back” buttons and software states in the design of our forthcoming Android and iPhone app. And so was Aza Raskin. Raskin suggests an improvement to the much-improvable experience of using the Apple iPhone’s ultra-simple, yet rather…
…are, however, all present in the same physical place, employed by the same company, and for the most part have common skills between them. I have no doubt that Scrum works. It’s just that it works for other people. I do have my doubts that even for them it works in the way I want it to work for UX (although I have read the Nielsen/Norman study on this that indicates it can do). I’m sure the debate will continue, but this, for what it’s worth, was…