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Designing for Social Interaction

Boxes and Arrows

Let’s look at each type of tie, and how we might design for them. 9 So, when we’re designing for strong ties, we’re designing for small groups of people. This pattern of technology being used for strong tie communication is not new. Weak ties: People we are loosely connected to, like friends of friends.

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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

In 2009, I moved on to Salesforce.com, where Agile methods (including Scrum) were implemented across their entire research and development organization. Many of the problems they reported indicated that both UX professionals and technical staff lacked a shared understanding of each others’ team roles and responsibilities.

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Typology for Innovative Organizations

Open Innovation EU

It has been a while since Henry Mintzberg developed his influential work that made us aware of the importance of structures in organization design. Structures are no longer of primary focus in design organizations. Let me show you how the focus of organization design has changed over the years: Scholar. It enhances productivity.

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Clicking Fast and Slow

Boxes and Arrows

On the web, user interface design may work to either exacerbate or counteract these biases. This article will give a brief overview of the science then look at possible ways that design and implementation can be employed to support better judgements. Screen grab showing an Amazon review. Designing smarter rather than simpler.

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

Idea to Value

Originally, patents had a simple purpose: By filing a patent, an inventor or company showed how their new technology worked, in exchange for legal protection for the duration of the patent. billion , predominantly for the approximately $4 billion worth of patents it possessed around smartphone technology. Does this system still work?

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UX Researcher: A User’s Manual

Boxes and Arrows

Congratulations on hiring a user experience design researcher! According to Forrester (2009, pg. It is likely she is observing verbal and physical interactions in the room as she designs a plan of attack. A literature review on a relevant topic can inform future research you engage in as well as design recommendations you make.