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For those who are new to the idea of using models for requirements elicitation and analysis, it’s a common misconception to think: “I don’t have time to create models.” There’s no question that visual models are effective; but, contrary to what you may believe, they should save time, not cost …
When we have a sticky issue for which the solution needs buy-in, I’m frequently the voice in the room making sure we’re all in agreement on how we’re going to request the buy-in. While some people get frustrated with this, I’ve learned that how you pose a question can have …
In The Fold Manifesto: Why the Page Fold Still Matters, Amy Schade discusses how important it is to put key information above the fold on a website. In the article, Schade writes: “Screen sizes are constantly shifting and designs can respond to these sizes, rather than fit to a constant size. …
A group of us were talking about varying communication style based on your audience and one of my colleagues related the following story: she depended on a person to provide report mock ups for her user stories. This person was driving her crazy, because she would send a detailed list …
A colleague of mine was in a group discussion where another business analysts said that understanding business value was not their job; their job was to do what their business partner wanted. My colleague was nonplused and asked how I would respond. I came down pretty strongly—they should ask because …
Kristin’s post Multitasking: Don’t Do It prompted me to do something I’ve been meaning to do for a while—find the statistic on the percentage of people who actually do effectively multitask. I don’t know if the search gods were friendlier than they were on my earlier attempts to find it, …
I cannot be trusted to unmute a phone. I have a history of hanging up instead of unmuting. I can admit this, because I know I’m not the only one. When it happens, I blame the phone–the visual cues are all wrong. The phones that trick me are the ones …
You have an important presentation coming up. You create the presentation. You get it reviewed. You run it by the person who is great with power point to make it spiffier. You practice. You try it out on a colleague; they tell you you have it nailed. You’re ready—or are …
I just had some fun, so I thought I would share–the User-Experience Quiz: 2015 UX Year in Review by the Nielsen Norman Group is only 10 questions, and does a nice job of refreshing/checking knowledge on some pertinent usability topics. Check it out!
On an episode of Well Read, Elizabeth Gilbert makes the interesting case that perfectionism is really fear (starting at 6 minutes, 58 seconds). She also addresses this in her blog post about avoiding the perfectionism trap, where she states “…I think perfectionism is just a high-end, haute couture version of …
