by Shelley | Aug 9, 2010 | Blog, Uncategorized
People sometimes challenge me (politely) with reasons why Contextual Inquiry (CI) interviews can’t work with their specific industry or user population. Usually I go into some variation of my standard explanation with examples related to their situation to illustrate...
by Hugh | Aug 2, 2010 | Blog
I’m excited by the work we’ve been doing with Agile teams and defining the best relationship between Agile Development and user-centered design. Here’s some of what we’re up to: New Publication: Agile User-Centered Design UX designers have...
by Karen | Jul 27, 2010 | Blog, Uncategorized
I walked out of Verizon yesterday having just ordered the Motorola Droid X. I was pretty excited to try it out, having waited for Verizon to get something I wanted. “You know what was conspicuously missing?” my husband said as we walked out of the store. “Nokia!” we...
by Hugh | Jul 12, 2010 | Blog
BJ Clark over at Marked as Pertinent has an interesting post on who should do acceptance testing. He starts there, but he spends most of the post on the really interesting question, which is the role of the Interaction Designer (ID). His claim, which I agree with, is...
by Kelley | Jun 18, 2010 | Blog
A recent discussion by Bruce Nussbaum (BusinessWeek) suggests the need for identifying the creative capability of individuals and organizations. This concept got me thinking about creativity and how or even IF we could or should measure such a thing. I think the...
by Shelley | Jun 2, 2010 | Blog
A few weeks ago I attended a keynote panel at legal industry conference that featured Malcolm Gladwell. If you aren’t familiar with Gladwell, he’s the author of several best-selling books in the U.S., including Outliers, The Tipping Point, and Blink. For me, Gladwell...
by Hugh | May 4, 2010 | Blog
I attended CHI 2010 week before last and it was interesting and insightful as usual. There were lots of great ideas, interaction paradigms and insightful research being presented. But one topic was not much addressed by official conference sessions, but was common in...
by Karen | Apr 30, 2010 | Blog, Uncategorized
We had a wonderful time at our SIG on Understanding Cool this year at CHI 2010. Here at InContext we are taking up the challenge of understanding the experience of “cool” in the context of people’s lives and across people’s life cycle. Our advanced research is looking...
by Karen | Apr 29, 2010 | Blog
I was standing on the podium at the end of my Lifetime Achievement Award talk on practical innovation answering questions. Someone asked: “I see that there are a lot of women awarded this year; what can men learn about how to better support women in the field?” This...
by Wendy | Apr 12, 2010 | Blog
We’re running a contest on Twitter that we hope you’ll find fun. Here’s what you need to do: Tweet about what you think is the single most helpful design principle. If you had to choose just one principle that you could get all those non-designer...
