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Are Design Patterns an Anti-pattern?

Boxes and Arrows

Design patterns are generally considered a good thing, but do they actually help run a user experience group? As a user experience group manager and an observer (and sponsor) of design pattern exercises, I’ve come to have serious questions about their actual utility. ” Completeness and learn-ability are in conflict.

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Helping discover your innovation pathway

Paul Hobcraft

I always find the post-New Year to be a reflective part of the year of reviewing, deciding, and then setting new goals. Innovation application and practice seem to have stayed stuck, largely due to how it is organized. This is a post about the sources of my knowledge that feeds my innovation passion. Let me start.

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What goes around, comes around, in Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

Let me provide a quick introduction along with some brief explanations : Innovation for me always needs common reference points. Jeffrey and I believed, even more so today , that the innovation space needs a common starting point – a collaborative reference model. It needs connecting up in a comprehensive way. Let me be proved wrong!

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When Information Design is a Matter of Life or Death

Boxes and Arrows

Medicine or patient information leaflets refer to the document included inside medicine packaging and are typically printed on thin paper (see figures 1.1–1.4). Subsequently, leaflets are heavily regulated in the way they need to be designed, written, and produced. Possible Design Improvements.

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Elements of Learning Experience Design

Boxes and Arrows

The process of designing any sort of human experience, regardless of purpose or platform, is centered around reaching a desired outcome, ideally with as little fuss and as much joy as possible. Designing adult learning experiences that take place either online or in a classroom has always traditionally been about defining a curriculum.

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The Value of Knowing When to Pivot

IdeaScale

Pivoting refers to the idea of shifting your business strategy to meet the unexpected demand of customers, and this can take some unusual forms. A good example is the ubiquitous business chat software Slack. First, we should define what a pivot is. So what are your wins? What do your customers most often use your product for?

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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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