Tag: Iteration

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Collaborative UX projects. Lessons from Youth Leadership Treks

Alpha 1, Day 2: the team was still in its forming stage. 280km later, on the flanks of a volcano in central Nicaragua, they had transitioned into a high performing trekking *machine*.

Insights for effective project leadership and collaboration. Four months of youth development treks with Raleigh International.

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UX

A risk with Lean Iteration and MVP

As soon as we build something, we all tend to move increasingly from inquiry mode to advocacy mode at the very time where the former is needed and the latter can blind us. Bill Aulet

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Usability

Comparative Usability Evaluation wisdom

Rolf Molich, inventor of the Comparative Usability Evaluation (CUE). In each CUE study, a considerable number of professional usability teams independently and simultaneously evaluate the same design.

Rolf Molich contrasting Comparative Usability Evaluation (CUE) with Jakob Nielsen’s rubric that testing a design with 5 users will reveal 85% of the most important usability problems.

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Collaboration

Mistakes are the portals of discovery

Failure can suck in the moment, but always has a silver lining

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UX

Sunk costs fallacy

Jack Moffett’s take on why sunk costs causes shoddy design to last forever

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User Research

Boyd’s Law of Iteration

Speed of iteration beats the quality of iteration.