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Control and Community: A Case Study of Enterprise Wiki Usage

Boxes and Arrows

Wikis introduce to the Internet a collaborative model that not only allows, but explicitly encourages, broad and open participation. In particular, I am seeking insight from this case study into the “balance of power” tension. Membership of the team predates and takes precedence over membership of the Wiki community.

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Bringing Holistic Awareness to Your Design

Boxes and Arrows

As our profession has increasingly gained importance, it also become increasingly specialized: information design, user experience design, interaction design, user research, persona development, ethnographic user research, usability testing—the list goes on and on.

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Are We Taking the “U” Out of UX?

Boxes and Arrows

Some excerpts: Work with the development team to follow a user-centered design approach as you work collaboratively to brainstorm and design innovative solutions to complex problems. Work closely with team members to conduct user research, identify pain points, develop user profiles, and create task lists.

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The UX Professionals’ Guide to Working with Agile Scrum Teams

Boxes and Arrows

I reached out to seventy colleagues and received detailed responses from twenty UX professionals (including interaction designers, user researchers, and visual designers) who were actively supporting Scrum development teams. “One of my teams has a lot of ideas and contributes a lot to the UX of the product. UX managers.

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2 Super Smart Ways to Catalyze Innovative Success

BrainZooming

These trends, as one industry insider put it, “burn really bright and really short,” necessitating abbreviating product development cycles from several years to months, or even weeks. Let’s review two of critical success factors toy manufacturers are embracing that are of value, if your brand also wants to speed up its innovation pace.

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Effective Leaders Create Highly Engaged Cultures

Tullio Siragusa

Here are some small ideas that can help develop in people a feeling that they are important to the organization by embracing their own strengths: 1. Let people do self-assessments and choose tasks based on their unique strengths. Don’t use these as perks, use these as conscious opportunities to develop team intimacy.

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Atelier Louis Zero: Spot, Play, Go,… Zero!

Innovation Excellence

By creating new experiences and utilities, by touching on the product, the services, the global experience, Louis Zero breaks the usual silos and makes many departments of a company collaborate in an interdisciplinary way. We run an identification workshop with the project team, to assess the objectives, constraints and KPI?s