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Design
Which approach to design works best for you? Design is a delicate matter. It is not only a question of taste, but just as much a question of approach. How designers go about their work is highly personal. Almost every approach will be different. At the same time, there is one thing I see all good designers do. They use pen & paper and digital media interchangeably, and they know when to switch between the two.
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Theory
The second and last part of this article addresses one of the main challenges that User Experience professionals face: how to convince our customers to work under a process of user-centered design (UCD) instead of a waterfall methodology. Based on the same case proposed in the first part of this article I describe where the greater efficiency of the UCD lies and why.
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Theory
One of the main challenges user experience professionals face is how to convince our customers to work under a process of user-centered design instead of the traditional waterfall methodology. In this article I propose a simple comparative exercise to analyze the economic efficiency of one process over the other.
Announcements
Incorporating usability techniques and processes of User-Centered Design (UCD) in companies that are not used to working with them can become a daunting task. Over and over again we hear arguments that justify the rejection and invalidate the possibility of change, even if this is minimal. This article describes the most common arguments we hear, and proposes concrete actions to refute the negatives.
by Doug Savage (www.savagechickens.com)