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It’s not just about the customer, but the users too!
100_2024 Originally uploaded by josh.ev9. Just another day at ThoughtWorks, or at least ThoughtWorks University. While we were designing the interface (and experience) for a new internal tool, we involved some real future users. In this photo, the Analyst team is carrying out a study with a low fidelity prototype, which led to a pretty…
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TWU Class of Monsoon2006
TWU Class of Monsoon2006 Originally uploaded by josh.ev9. We did it! Check out the ThoughtWorks University class of Monsoon2006, just post-graduation.
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Nearly there
I know, I know. You’re all going to scold me, I’m sure. I haven’t blogged in a while, and you, my ever-patient readership have become quite used to me not spewing out any of the drivel that you’re used to seeing on my weblog. I’ll try to do better. I really will. The past few…
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Why can’t we find a way to speed up web apps?
Now, I try to stay away from such technical subjects, but I’m just wondering: Is there any way to make our web applications go faster? Why do sites like Wikipedia and other content-rich tools (like Confluence, for all you TWers) have to load soooooooooooooooo slooooooooowly? It really inhibits my attention span.
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What the users really think…
I was inspired this evening by this post on Creating Passionate Users. It reminded me of one of my favorite phrases from all of graduate school: Design Like You Give a Damn. Don’t just think about the design you should be doing. Actually do the design. Actually care for the people you’re designing for, and…
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I heart linux
because it makes it so easy to mount things like iPods and download all your music to your new computer. It would have been harder on a Windows Machine, and even slightly harder on my mac. Now if I could only figure out how to install Lotus Notes…
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Hey, who are the newbies on PlanetInfo?
Just a question. Feel free to introduce yourselves. 🙂
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Partying with the Taj’
The infamous poseOriginally uploaded by josh.ev9. Sure, I could have posted one of my more skilled shots of the Taj Mahal, but I did not. Instead, the infamous pose. This weekend a group of us went up to Agra, via Delhi, for a trip to the Taj Mahal. That’s the start of the story. Let…
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UCD @ TW: What You Didn’t Know You Didn’t Know
When I came to ThoughtWorks University a little less than a month ago, I set as my main goal the task of discovering what kinds of User Centered Design practices were occuring at ThoughtWorks, and how I could help progress those tasks. After two blazingly fast weeks of class, I’ve learned a lot, hopefully taught…
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My Agile Excitement, Part 1: Stories are based on Users
As noted in my first agile worry, I am often scared that features of a given piece of software will be built based on reasons other than user needs. Yesterday I learned that story cards are, indeed, quite user centered. The format we learned for creating a card is as follows: As a [ person…