A List Apart: Articles: Get Out from Behind the Curtain
“Including clients in the design process” may sound like death by a thousand paper cuts. I used to think that designing with clients was a really bad idea. I didn’t want them around me while I was “doing my work.” They just seemed to get in [...]

I’m doing some guerrilla research for a new web service this Friday and Saturday in London and I’m looking for participants. The specs are pretty loose - you need to use internet banking and be responsible for managing your own and/or your household’s finances. (You’re not allowed to be a financial expert tho, or extraordinarily [...]

adaptive path » demystifying data analysis
I always get a little miffed when I hear user-experience folk describe their data analysis process as looking for “a-ha moments.” … it leaves one with the impression that coming up with research insights is an experience of epiphany…
(tags: data design ethnography research analysis)

You might have read about the workshop I ran at dConstruct recently… it was fun for all and, even better, it appears that people found it valuable and are actually applying it in their day to day work - hooray!
Word on the street is that there may be enough people interested in running the workshop [...]

Have you read the Agile Manifesto lately? If you’re doing Agile work then hopefully you’ve come across it. I always find it a really good touchpoint to come back to when thinking about what *is* and *isn’t* Agile - much more useful than looking at how any one particular flavour of Agile or one companies [...]

New Statesman - Intimacy issues
It’s important for our digital identities that we disentangle all this information to form a coherent notion of private space.
(tags: ambientintimacy socialnetworks)

I had the opportunity to present a talk on the power of iterative methodologies over waterfall at dConstruct last week (a.k.a Waterfall Bad, Washing Machine Good). This is an extended re-mix of a talk that I gave very briefly at the IA Summit earlier this year (I also presented a similar talk at UX Week [...]

I ran a workshop on Collaboration, Creativity & Consensus for User Experience Design at dConstruct last week. I had lots of fun and learned a lot as well - I know, it makes me sound as though I was a participant, not running the show! Funny how that works! (Hopefully the people who came along [...]

Post-it art - Blog - Etre
(tags: post-it stickies)