When you are solving a difficult problem re-ask the problem so that your solution helps you learn faster. Find a faster way to fail, recover, and try again. If the problem you are trying to solve involves creating a magnum opus, you are solving the wrong problem.

morebetterabe  /  1 year ago  /  0 notes

What are your favorite tips for getting team members to observe usability sessions?

morebetterabe  /  1 year ago  /  0 notes

I ♥ working side by side with the developer to make a design happen vs handing off easily misinterpreted documentation. #leanux

morebetterabe  /  1 year ago  /  0 notes

Much of private-sector ethnography is as banal as it is ironic. In its bland quest to “understand the consumer,” it reduces culture to mere consumerism and thereby fails to achieve its own stated goal of understanding. This cynical veneer of cultural research disregards the truly transformative effect of “going native,” which is the first step to deriving both deep insight and innovation.

morebetterabe  /  1 year ago  /  0 notes

The successful web companies of 2011 and beyond are just simply better looking. I don’t mean that on a surface level regarding their precious gradients and logos. I mean, quite literally, visual experiences are starting to become the gold standard of web success.

morebetterabe  /  1 year ago  /  0 notes

Real teaching is not about transferring “the material”, as if knowledge were some sort of mass-produced commodity that ships from Amazon. Real teaching is about conveying a way of thinking. How can a teacher convey a way of thinking when he doesn’t genuinely think that way?

morebetterabe  /  1 year ago  /  1 note