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UI Design Lessons: A UI Designer in an Agile World, Get Me Out of Hell! – Part 1

Posted: Oct 20th, 2009 | 2 Comments
When I travel to conferences and speak with people about their agile UX experiences I come across a lot of repeat questions. Most of these pleas for help are about time management,  rapid design sketching, traditional usability approaches, group design mentality, lack of support for UI...
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UI Design Dissection: Google Reader What Makes an Application Great?

Posted: Apr 3rd, 2009 | No Comments
There are some applications I never used or expected to use for more then a few days. And in any given week I try out about 10 – 15 new applications. I do this because I love analyzing and predicting new trends, design patterns, and visualizing work-flows. Usually, I end up with using 0 of...
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Agile UI Design: A Fundamental Miscalculation in UI Design Excellence?

Posted: Mar 25th, 2009 | 15 Comments
I’ve been banging my head against a wall trying to figure this question out for some time now.  Can existing in an agile development cycle truly create the best ui design? I’ve worked in Agile development environments. I’ve worked with structured project management. I’ve...
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Design Experiences: Don’t Rub Your Product Experience All Over Me.

Posted: Feb 18th, 2009 | 1 Comment
The other day I was pumping some gas at the gas station only to be accosted by the latest in drive by guerilla marketing. Nowadays, it is quite common to find little kiosks setup  outside of major business selling everything from makeup to car polisher. It’s as if the strip mall has come...
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Blog Response: IE 6 The Devil Not In Disguise

Posted: Feb 12th, 2009 | No Comments
The other day I came across an interesting article “Stop Developing for Internet Explorer 6” .  My initial thought was great I finally can stop developing for IE 6. Of course, that was just a pipedream. On many of my applications I still have a large captive IE 6 audience....
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