This section delves into my work, writings, and thoughts on designing in the 21st century. It encompasses design processes, design professionalism, systems, and critical thinking, while also offering historical insights into design theory and the potential revival of a lost professional foundation.
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What follows is a Birds Eye view of the history of design. Not meant to be complete but to inspire jumping off points for your own discovery of the richness and inspirations of design through the years.
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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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This second chapter focuses on the importance of the process to scale to a wide variety of different contexts, different designers, different domains, etc.
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For now, suffice it to say one of the biggest differentiators--and why AI will never replace design (though it is quickly becoming an indispensable tool)--lies in the art of the design process. But When I say design process, I am talking about a timeless and scalable design process.
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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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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.
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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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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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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 took exception to our criticizing a practice all too often