- An intolerance of failure.
- An excessive customer focus.
- A desire for a magic pill, not a daily exercise regime.
- An unwillingness to cannibalise sales.
- A reliance on a small cadre of innovators.
Tag: management
Google Design by Numbers
Quite recently Douglas Bowman left google. While this is not big news in itself it reveals some insights into google design process. There seems to be a clash between google’s data driven design by committee approach and Doug’s design attidude as an x-designer.
Creating Career Paths for UX Professionals
Handouts available at_ Creating Career Paths for UX Professionals
9:1 ratio of bad ideas to good
I tell my clients that I try to maintain a 9:1 ratio of bad ideas to good. And, no, I can’t tell which are which. If only.
interview questions and exercises
Interview questions for user experience design roles by Day Alexander and discussion at IxDA.
Related on LinkedIn: What are key questions for hiring managers and executives?
Produkt-Management ist…
…das Beobachten und Regulieren der Grenze zwischen Rot und Blau. (Siehe meine Notizen zum Vortrag: Kulturbeobachtung – ein Element dynamikrobuster Höchstleistung von Dr. Gerhard Wohland)
it is the user's itch that needs to be scratched
The Summer 2007 issue of interfaces contains an article on our User Experience Project. If you are not a member of the British HCI group, you can read “User Experience for OpenOffice.org” on my website.
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The first rule of open source development is also the reason for an inherent usability problem: "Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer’s personal itch."The result is a self-referential system – developers develop for themselves rather than for the average user or the target audience. Usability engineering is considered as superfluous extra. However, to provide a good user experience, it is the user’s itch that needs to be scratched.This article presents user experience activities in the context of OpenOffice.org. The author – co-lead of the User Experience Project – will discuss the status of building an open source community of usability professionals to improve the usefulness and usability of the application.(read more…)
Usability im Unternehmen
Das Kapitel 4 “Usability im Unternehmen” aus “Usability praktisch umsetzen” (Hanser 2003) ist nun online.
Gabriele Fischer im NDR Interview
Gabriele Fischer, Chefredakteurin und Herausgeberin des Wirtschaftmagazins brand eins im Interview auf NDR 4, Der Talk (mp3)
Ivan Sutherland on "Research and Fun"
An Evening with Ivan Sutherland at the Computer History Museum