User Experience.UX Design

Those with enough experience as designers often come to realize, as I have, that "Designer", as a title, is a little bit of a conceit. Sure, it comes with years of training, apprenticeship, and "real world" experience, yet in traditionally structured organizations, we are often co-designers, at best... Read Design Means Business III »

Got Design? Collaboration: Trust or Control? In the first Design Means Business installment, we addressed basic notions of collaboration and conflict resolution, because communications/software seldom manages and transmits information better than its producing team can. A team's ability to ... Read Design Means Business II »

In this first Design Means Business installment, I intend to address the business community, primarily. Some UX and other design types will find it helpful, too, as this article series aims to improve communication and collaboration between design and business partners working on web-delivered softw... Read Design Means Business »

Web Application Success Recipes When we first launch in to a great new venture, interest or passion, a common impulse is to put all of our best ideas in to it. Well, the ones we think are best, at least, often in our naiveté. What's true for my eldest sisters lemon squares is also true for... Read Applying Successful Recipes »

Are the means and interests of design strategy and business management inherently at odds with each other? If so, then why do they need each other so much? As in most of life this far from the sun: paradoc reigns. Let's look at the vinegar and oil relationship between practices of design strategy an... Read Strategy vs. Management? »

And the Designers Who Don't Love Them Some psychologists have said that fathers and sons are in competition, in a sense, because both are in love with the same woman. Oedipus thought so. Electra, too, as she assumed the female equivalent of Oedipus' complex. For our part, however, can designers a... Read Managers Who Love Design… »