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Comment on The Thought Experiment and Imagination as a Tool by Almar van der Krogt

Almar van der Krogt — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 09:55:06 +0000

Great article. I love the ‘blasphemy’ part (sounds very familiar).

Comment on Work: The Musical by Work: The Game on Themography.com by Jay A. Morgan | Themography

Work: The Game on Themography.com by Jay A. Morgan | Themography — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 05:01:38 +0000

[...] like I wrote in “Work: The Musical“, this is about detecting the level of subconscious commitment you – or your colleagues – [...]

Comment on Prototyping is the Way of the Future, and Confluence+Balsamiq is bringin-it by Jonathan Nolen

Jonathan Nolen — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:56:06 +0000

Hi Jay,

This is a terrific post! I just shared it with the rest of my colleagues at Atlassian. We are huge fans of Balsamiq: our PMs and development teams use it all the time for prototyping features.

And the story behind Balsamiq is incredibly inspiring. If you don’t know Peldi, or haven’t read about his start-up experience, you should go explore his blog. It’s a great company, run by a terrific guy.

Cheers,
Jonathan @ atlassian

Comment on Prototyping is the Way of the Future, and Confluence+Balsamiq is bringin-it by Elisa Wang

Elisa Wang — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:38:56 +0000

Interesting perspective – I have been long time user of Confluence, and plugins like this continue to surprise me. Good write up.

Comment on User Experience is Cultural Software by admin

admin — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 15:08:16 +0000

Hey Peter,
Thanks for the comment. First, I’m considering user experience as an umbrella that contains IA and IxD. So, thinking of joint probabilities, UX will have a larger impact than either IA or UX because it’s the union of those two and more. Second, I’m taking a longer perspective – think decades, rather than next year. I consider the UX label as a variable in a larger equation that has a lasting impact on the cultures I listed here. We tend to see in a fish-eye lens that today’s activities and undertakings are most important. But, that fades over decades, and we will have the advantage of hindsight to see how UX – and its sub-practices – have delivered value.
-Jay

Comment on User Experience is Cultural Software by Matt Lee

Matt Lee — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:44:56 +0000

If I had a hammer I’d be a post-post-modern man.

Comment on User Experience is Cultural Software by Peter Boersma

Peter Boersma — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:14:40 +0000

““User Experience” is simply the current moniker for something many of us believe to have larger value”

Larger value than what? IA and IxD? Larger reach, yes. Bigger scope? Yes! Larger value? Mwaah.

P.S.: Link to IAI is broken (extra http://) and trailing “/en/” is not required; site is set up to redirect people to preferred language version.

Comment on User Experience is Cultural Software by Almar van der Krogt

Almar van der Krogt — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 10:44:09 +0000

I very much like your thesis: the whole thing is cultural. The actions of the user might be personal/individual or social, but the driver to interact in the first place is cultural.

It also makes a case for more active and leveled involvement of the producer (as opposed to the user); not being a director, but a ‘primus inter pares’ – first among equals.