The Wisdom of Experience
Allan Cooper’s talk at IXDA Conference 2008

One week, rapid, collaborative, agile inception used in iteration zero or sprint zero
To begin an Agile project we need a shared understanding of the most important business and user objectives to strive for. We need a shared understanding of the current work practice of those who [...]

I don’t usually do memes on this blog, but as I’ve been tagged by Ian it seems like a nice way to ease back into the year (it’s been a little quiet round here lately!).
Apparently, these are the rules of this particular meme:

Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
People who are tagged need [...]

I know this is a little off topic, but I feel compelled to write up this experience so that I can hopefully prevent someone from giving money to this horrible internet scammer… it makes me sad that there are people behaving like this, but that’s the nature of the human race I guess. Most of [...]

So, I don’t remember whether I specifically told you or not, but I’ve just gone out to work on my own.
A freelance what, I’m not exactly sure.. I’m hoping to continue to do what I’ve been doing for a while now - design/user research and user centred design (including information architecture and interaction design), but [...]

I’ve been thinking on this a little bit lately. I’m just about to make some more changes at work, and I have to admit, for a while there I was toying with becoming an ‘innie’.
There is something quite seductive about having the access to resources that innies have that outies never really get. Especially if [...]

I’m collecting reasons that you’ve heard or used as to why you can’t use a proper UCD (User Centred Design) methodology in your project.
Not just ‘yeah, I think about users when I’m doing the design’, but actually involving *real* users in your design process. Doing a proper UCD methodology.
How do you rationalise using UCD in [...]

“Just as water, gas, and electricity are brought into our houses from far off to satisfy our needs in response to a minimal effort, so we shall be supplied with visual or auditory images, which will appear and disappear at a simple movement of the hand, hardly more than a sign.”
Paul Valery, 1931.
cool.
(thanks James)

OK. I’ve managed to avoid the whole meme thing pretty well for the past year or so, but I can’t really ignore being tagged by David, so bear with me. I’ll keep it brief.
Five things you probably don’t know about me.

I’d rather be a concert pianist: I used to be a pretty reasonably pianist back [...]

A friend told me this morning that apparently anger is the difference between those who survive and those who don’t. That sounded kind of profound. The more I think about it, the more I think she might be right.
I’m not really an angry person… in fact, when I’m angry it’s more than likely I’m just [...]

what do you think?

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