Round-Robin The round-robin method…is well suited to ensuring all deliverables get the appropriate level of feedback they need. If the intent of a design critique is to solicit feedback on multiple deliverables…
Keeping Your Clients Happy When Doing Agile Development :: UXmatters
2. Collaboratively prune the backlog. Often, you wind up with a growing backlog of enhancements, small tweaks, ambiguous feature requests, and more. If you’re following an agile process, you’re already using a…
Delivering Innovation :: UXmatters
Why Do We Still Struggle with Innovation? Even in an agile design, development, and delivery world, the focus on product requirements often gets in the way of delivering. The delivery of innovations…
The Tinkering Mindset :: UXmatters
Tinkering to Realize Possibilities Tinkering is a playful way of designing and making. Through constant experimentation, we try out various ideas to create something new. Through tinkering, we can realize what were…
7 Reasons to Avoid Them and What to Do Instead :: UXmatters
2. Readability scores are not valid. Readability isn’t just being able to see letters or words on a page or screen. That’s legibility. Readability formulas claim to be able to predict who would…
Embellishing the System to Manage Expectations and Costs :: UXmatters
For service elements that involve multiples—whether multiple iterations or multiple pieces—the cost, in time, of the first instance would likely be higher than the time necessary to complete the final instance. Each…
Prioritizing Design Critique, Part 1 :: UXmatters
Ground Rules If your peers are distributed across multiple campuses and time zones, prioritizing design critique can be challenging—unless you have a shared set of rules or guiding principles. Every organization is…
Leveraging Design Thinking to Drive Higher Quality :: UXmatters
Table 1 shows an example estimate for the crafting an IA services. Table 1—Example services estimate for crafting an IA Item Type Description Quantity Unit Factor Total HC 1.01 Ad Kick-off meeting…
A Guide to User Research Analysis
When designers perform user interviews, field observations, or usability tests, they gather tons of notes and data to help inform design decisions and recommendations. But how do they make sense of so…
4 things our editors are reading this week to be better designers
Each week when my co-editor Jess and I meet, we not only talk about upcoming UX Booth articles, but also great articles from other publications that teach, inspire, or otherwise make us…