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c. 1900: The Industrial Revolution. The development of the industrial revolution leads to the separation of the maker of a product from the planner of the product. The maker becomes an engineer and factory, the planner becomes the designer who must interact with many people: client, engineer, and consumer. 1907:
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I have finally finished 7 articles on the Time Scalable Design Process, the guide for every designer to assure their work is both professional and thorough, regardless of the context of the design project. It's an approach similar to the checklist approach of surgeons or airline pilots as
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I recently added to my series on the timeless scalable design process with an article about Value Driven Design (VDD). VDD is a specialization of the design process for business and organizations where delivering value is the key result of the deign process. The article is available here below: https:
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The second article in the series on the Timeless Scalable Design process has been published. I invite you to read the article here: Scalability in the Design Process. The first article covered the common misconceptions about the design process and how the design process is currently misunderstood in a way
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I see design from many different angles and one of them is how different mediums deal with constraints. Since I feel mastering constraints is the most important (and most liberating) task for the designer. One of my fascinations with the cinema is the effect censorship had on Hollywood, especially examining
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Contrary to much press, AI is not replacing design, it is rather ferreting out the incompetent from the real designers. I will write more about that phenomenon in a later post. For now, suffice it to say one of the biggest differentiators--and why AI will never replace design (though it
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A First Step towards UX Sanity Checking ABSTRACT This paper proposes an introspective test to see whether the reader of this paper is a charlatan UX practitioner. If so, it points ways the reader can professionalize their practice. For the non-UX professional this questionnaire can act as an interview script
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A new year and a new post in my less than active blog, here is an article that originally appeared in interactions magazine. While many design methods are practiced “in the wild,” the most prevalent one appears to be “Design first and ask questions later”—also known as “Throw it
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In a sad day for most digital products and services, an italian economist, Vilfredo Pareto, observed that 80% of Italy’s wealth was owned by 20% of the population. From that economic observation has come a torrent of the most far flung interpretations of a non-existent 80-20 rule. There is
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Heuristics are excellent assistance in identifying potential problems with a given user interface design. The trouble lies when people come to rely on these as the sole input, that somehow they can come and overtake the more rigorous and far more accurate methods of evaluation. So please don’t read
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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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(Adapted from a previous editorial I wrote for interactions Magazine) This editorial is from a controversial issue on measuring usability. This special issue covered CIF usability testing (a seemingly innocuous if important topic). Upon publication many took strong esxception to our coverage of CIF testing. But perhaps these critics also