Archive for ‘Design Strategy’
UX leadership insight: wrap-up
For future reference and for easier reading through the whole “UX leadership insights” series, I’ll compile the links to individual articles here.
Read more »UX leadership insight #15: You
(See my earlier posts for introduction to the series.) This is my last post in this series of design leadership. I have saved the most personal one as last.
Read more »UX leadership insight #14: Tacit knowledge
(See my earlier posts for introduction to the series.) In a large project, there will always be some churn in the design team. Some designers will eventually leave, and there will be some new members that join the team during the process. Sometimes, when there are schedule pressure in the project, you can try to [...]
Read more »World Record in Being Agile.
A few weeks back our client SuomiTV released a web tv designed by us, and built by Soprano Brain Alliance on top of Brightcove‘s technology. For us, it was business as usual, until we heard we’d broken a world record in process. Bit of a background— at Nordkapp, we work with a fairly systematic process/framework [...]
Read more »UX leadership insight #13: Bell curve
(See my earlier posts for introduction to the series.) As with many other natural phenomena, the skills of designers follow a bell curve. There are always a few super productive ones, lots of in-between, and then some at the tail of the curve. Factors that determine the productivity and quality of design work include training, [...]
Read more »UX leadership insight #12: The space between
(See my earlier posts for introduction to the series.) How should the teams for design be built? There are thousands of handbooks how to build effective teams, so let’s not get into the generics. There’s one specific aspect of design teamwork that I would like to emphasize, and that is the collaboration of interaction design [...]
Read more »UX leadership insight #11: Skill is everything
(See my earlier posts for introduction to the series.) Mikko Franck, a respected Finnish conductor, was asked to help out and rehearse with an amateur orchestra for a full weekend. He arrived at the site, and just for a trial started to conduct the first composition. The musicians in the orchestra didn’t play particularly well. [...]
Read more »Eight things for 2010
Here are some of the themes we think will either finally make their way into mainstream or are there, and keep on on getting stronger in 2010. Tell us what you think in the comments. 1. Design as a process In 2006, the UK’s Design Council published their seminal paper on Transformation Design. Somehow things [...]
Read more »Looking in from the Outside
Here’s the presentation I gave for the annual Project Managers’s Club seminar at Aalto University Design Factory on 25.11.
Read more »UX leadership insight #10: Tools of trade
(See my earlier posts for introduction to the series.) Watercolor paintings and oil paintings look no doubt quite different. The artist had a vision about the desired end result and then selected the painting technique that is best suited to reach it. In any form of art or craft, the tool is always visible in [...]
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