Jungus

Is user experience relevant where you work?
How looking at the context your product is targeted for can explain your organization’s support or lack of support for user experience concerns.

6/10/2008

Software development and plastics
I remember something Tim Lister said in a talk at a conference a couple years ago now - and I know I’ll paraphrase this [...]

Don’t know what I want, but I know how to get it
Why knowing what you want in agile development may be an impediment to getting it.

01/21/2008

It all started with one of those weird trains of thought that come to you in the wee hours of the morning when you’re half way between asleep and awake. [...]

Kicking off the slow software movement
why our rush to build software faster sacrifices quality and treats software like fast food

09/23/2007

In August 2007 I was lucky enough to be able to edit an issue of Better Software Magazine. I was able to choose my authors: Alistair Cockburn, Jim Highsmith, and Jim Shore. I did [...]

Struggling to get into Shu business
Why it’s taken me years to explain simple things simply

7/18/2007

Shu Ha Ri explains how we learn

I’ve often found the terms Shu, Ha, and Ri useful to refer to the three stages of learning Alistair Cockburn described in Agile Software Development. I’ll usually explain that to learn something we start [...]

Dirty hands required
Why user experience people need to roll up their sleeves and get their hands dirty in development to get the best results.

4/2/2007

In an email exchange with a friend this morning he was speaking about his involvement on a soon to be released product. He’s been working on that product to design its [...]