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When Information Design is a Matter of Life or Death

Boxes and Arrows

Subsequently, leaflets are heavily regulated in the way they need to be designed, written, and produced. Adding to the design challenge is the fact that the guidelines for how medicine information leaflets are designed changes from country to country, and the guidelines are often vague. Possible Design Improvements.

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14 LGBTQ+ Innovators, Inventors and Scientists who changed the world

Idea to Value

She worked at MIT, IBM, Xerox PARC and DARPA and invented dimensionless, scalable design rules that greatly simplified chip design and design tools. It was IBM’s loss, as her later work at MIT, Xerox and DARPA on VLSI microchip design revolutionised the industry. However, her journey was not a simple one.

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The UX Professionals’ Guide to Working with Agile Scrum Teams

Boxes and Arrows

The adoption of Agile software development approaches are on the rise across our industry, which means UX professionals are more likely than ever to support Agile projects. In 2009, I moved on to Salesforce.com, where Agile methods (including Scrum) were implemented across their entire research and development organization.

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So You Wanna Build a Library, Eh?

Boxes and Arrows

The following article is an abridged version of Chapter 7 of Nathan Curtis’s 2009 book, Modular Web Design published by New Riders. The book’s first half addresses how to modularly break down your design, build it back up, and communicate in new and interesting ways. Portability: Designers come and go.

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How the current patent system actually hurts innovation (and how patent trolls are being fought)

Idea to Value

If you want to see just crazy the situation is, watch this video by software developer Austin Meyer, in which he describes his experience trying to fight these patent infringement claims with the companies that sued him. Can you patent software?: However, software is not always something that can be patented.

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The General Stakeholder Interview

Boxes and Arrows

This is an excerpt from from Kim Goodwin’s excellent Designing for the Digital Age. With respect to software, this diversity is usually due to what people think will be in the first (or next) version versus what will be in later versions. There may be variation due to a poor understanding of who the users are.

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The Engineering Stakeholder Interview

Boxes and Arrows

This is an excerpt from from Kim Goodwin’s excellent Designing for the Digital Age. Try to speak with engineering management as well as the design engineer(s), if such a role exists; it’s seldom a good idea to involve the entire engineering team at this point. Programmers and engineers may initially be wary of designers.