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April 26/2012 Jeff Parks
The following is a summary of my presentation at the 2012 Polish Information Architecture Summit in Warsaw, Poland this month. My heart felt thanks to the organizers and volunteers for your efforts in putting together a fantastic conference and for the honour of being your closing keynote.
April 19/2012 Jeff Parks
In 1968 Peter Drucker wrote a book with an elegant title, The Age of Discontinuity. In this book he identified four main topics which he believed would exert a profound influence on the shape of our world.
April 15/2012 Jeff Parks
…getting from complex to simple is rooted in creativity. We design to make things easy for others to use and interact with. Getting to ease of use should not be about focusing on specific processes or technology – nor should it be easy.
March 27/2012 Roger Davis
Recently I had a chance to watch the video of a talk given by Jonathan Berger, given at the recently concluded Agile UX NYC 2012 Conference. In his talk, Jonathan made reference to a designer who boldly claimed: “We don’t hire designers who can’t code.” This statement got me thinking about my own personal experience as a designer within the Jamaican market who’s been forced to learn to code because no one would hire me as a web designer if I couldn’t also develop the user interfaces of these websites using HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
February 7/2012 Ricardo Fleck
I do not intend on making this another Defining The Damn Thing post, there are plenty of those for all tastes in our industry. But I’d like to share my thoughts on a few points that I don’t see people discussing very often on UX. The Meta User Experience which is the User Experience of our User Experience projects…
