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Taking the Fast RIDE: Designing While Being Agile
I am concerned that in an attempt to adapt to the pressure for speed, designers are failing to uphold what we know is good design practice.
Jonathan Arnowitz-Taylor
Jonathan Arnowitz-Taylor is a Design Manager and novelist whose fiction illuminates the intricate landscape of alternative LGBTQ coming-of-age experiences. He is also currently working on a major motion picture screenplay to be announced soon.
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Measuring the User Experience
This weeks post is a review of the book Measuring the User Experience by Tom Tullis and Bill Albert. From time to time other book reviews will follow. Why a book review The current state of books on UX is deplorable. Many UX books can’t make up their mind
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Misleading Designs
One of the ingenious cheats of statistics is to “prove” that you are correct by accentuating the positive and eliminating the negative. To be a master of deception you do, of course, need tools. Not of the rabbit-and the-magic-hat variety.
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Prototyping 1: What does a prototype do
The book I co-wrote with Michael Arent and Nevin Berger remains still the only thorough attempt to understand prototyping. In the coming series of posts on prototyping.
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Prototyping 2: What is a prototype
But those are all vague terms and do not really help you get control of your prototype. And getting control is the point of the definition of a prototype that I want to discuss.
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Prototyping 3: What is a prototype
There are many layers of complexity and if you do not understand them, instead of controlling a prototype, the prototype will control you or worse victimize you. So let’s begin with some prototyping characteristics...
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The UX Charlatan's text
Professionalism seems to be an amorphous concept in the UX profession. And why not, it seems anyone with an unembarassing resume can get a UX job doing the most unqualified work imaginable. Here's a quick litmus test.