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Sketchy Wireframes

Boxes and Arrows

Caption: Comparison of the sketchy wireframe stencils by Niklas Wolkert (right) and traditional ones by Henrik Olsen (left) at guuui.com. Comparison of Computer Based Sketchy Tools Software developers are starting to recognize the importance of computer-based sketchy wireframes, and there is a growing assortment of tools to create them.

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Getting a Form's Structure Right: Designing Usable Online Email Applications

Boxes and Arrows

Service/Product comparison Remember, your users are watching your competitors as well. Image 3: Bluebottle’s website allows users to take a peek at service comparisons. Users also have the freedom to view a detailed comparison. So if you aren’t that big in the market, how exactly would you think big?

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8 best project management tools

mjvinnovation

A company specialized in product development for software developers and managers. Jira is one more case of project management tools focused on a specialty: software development projects. The application offers a series of tools to manage the teams’ workflow.

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Using Wikis to Document UI Specifications

Boxes and Arrows

The development process usually plays a major role in how teams interact and how work is completed or delivered, thus, there is a direct relationship between the UI spec and the process the team is using. Description of the Problem There are many product development processes and one that has garnered much attention is agile.

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User Experience Research at Scale

Boxes and Arrows

You don’t have to worry about obsolete versions, or download packages–web-based software enables you to change directions quickly. Combining an ongoing research effort with popular software development methods such as agile or waterfall allows for immediate response when issues with an application’s usability are found.

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This Weekly Meeting Took Up 300,000 Hours a Year

Harvard Business Review

Since revenue per employee varies widely among industries, we confined our comparisons to companies in the same business. Predictably, the differences were larger in people-intensive businesses, like software development, and smaller in capital-intensive industries such as semiconductor manufacturing.

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Why Your Customer Loyalty Program Isn’t Working

Harvard Business Review

Shoppers are rewarded for their loyalty to Walmart by having Walmart do comparison shopping for them. Similarly, how valuable is a “typical” customer who makes suggestions to a hotel — or retailer or software developer — that can be worth hundreds of thousands in insight?