As UX 2006 finished up (for me) yesterday, it certainly exceeded my expectations. It’s important to consider since there are organizational expectations that I will ‘learn something’ and subsequently ‘apply’ this to organizational initiatives as well as ‘teach’ these learnings to others. To evaluate it, I consider the conference on a number of [...]
Great presentation this morning by Jeffrey Veen on designing the next generation web apps. He used the Garrett framework as a reference to examine how the next gen apps. With all the buzz around 2.0 it has been a challenge to put it in an applicable context. Some of the key takeaways:
As Jeff [...]
Bradley Horowitz, the VP Product Strategy for Yahoo, gave a great presentation on some of the latest technology implementations going on at Yahoo. While the topic was ‘Lowering Barriers to Participation’, I found the session more general. Good Take-Aways:
Yahoo is doing Agile and they have their own variant called YAgile. Very cool and I heard [...]
Day 1 of Adaptive Path User Experience week is underway and so far my ‘User Experience’ has been very good. The sessions have varied from very abstract to tangible items to take away. A lot of the folks that I’ve met are looking for tangible pieces to take back and implement.
Great post that really resonates with me as a product manager. The only element that I don’t cover is the visual design but I think most folks would appreciate that. In my role it’s critical to understand the business case, technologies for implementations, information architecture, information design and how the users will interact with [...]
I’ve started reading Universal Principles of Design and am thoroughly impressed. The book provides a great overview of design principles with application. For those of us in the web business who don’t have the traditional design background or missed the class, this is a great reference of concepts to consider when developing user interfaces [...]
Interesting article on A List Apart on how to plan for a web team. While it peanut-butters the roles, it certainly is a good discussion starter
A List Apart: Articles: How to Plan Manpower on a Web Team
Visible Narratives: Understanding Visual Organization – Boxes and Arrows
Interesting article about segmenting users into their search mode. Good food for thought as ’search’ is often a box that is just checked
Four Modes of Seeking Information and How to Design for Them – Boxes and Arrows
